Webinar

Engaging young people in planning brings insight into how places are used everyday. Their perspectives can highlight what supports, or limits, play, movement, safety and social connection in ways that are too often overlooked by adults.

When done well, engagement with children and young people is practical and purposeful, allowing them to actively shape decisions rather than simply inform them. Youth engagement can lead to more inclusive, well-used places that work better for everyone, and ensures that children and young people feel recognised as part of the communities they live in.

PLACED have been involving children and young people in the design of places since 2011. Their work with young people provides invaluable insight into the views of this key, often underrepresented group, but it also delivers significant social value through building confidence, exploring career options and encouraging active citizenship.

In this webinar we will here from Jo Harrop, PLACED Director about meaningful engagement, a young person engaged with the PLACED Academy programme and Lily Dowse on PLACED’s recent work engaging over 200 young people to reimagine the town centres of Rochdale, Middleton, and Heywood.

This event supports the TCPA’s ongoing work on the rights, needs and voices of children and young people in the built environment, including case studies and guidance on embedding children and young people in planning policy.

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