Shire Squeaks?

When the shire wants to engage the community does it shriek or squeak? If the planners have some grand scheme in mind that will drop a few hundred homes into your neighbourhood does it really want to know what you think?

Or does it perform the communication tasks involved in the statutory consultation as though it doesn’t really care whether your interest is piqued or not. As though it was just a formality that had to be gotten through, preferably with as little input from the community as possible.

Are the advertisements put out by the shire really engaging?

Do we get a real sense of what’s in store, what’s really being proposed, and how it will look?

In this TED talk, which I have used before, Dave Meslin has a wonderful example right up front in the first couple of minutes. Watch it and compare it to the notices our shire puts out.