Design principles

Community engagement
An overview of community engagement principles for open space planning

Council’s community engagement is guided by:
- Sunshine Coast Council Community Engagement Policy
- Sunshine Coast Council Community Engagement: Excellence in Engagement Framework
Policy
The Community Engagement Policy 2021 – provides direction for council’s community engagement activities according to the following principles, where engagement is:
- Inclusive
- Innovative
- well planned
- collaborative
- transparent.
Framework
The Community Engagement: Excellence in Engagement Framework 2021 – provides a practical guide for implementing best practice community engagement.
The five stages of engagement process:
- Establish the intent
- Explore the focus
- Build the plan
- Implement and monitor
- Report and evaluate.
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