Community Relations
The establishment and maintenance of mutually beneficial relationships with the communities in and around a project.
Community Relations Resources
Resources include papers, videos, research summaries and good practice documents produced by authors from across the HS2 Family to capture learning, good practice and innovation from the HS2 programme
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12-week look ahead schedule during construction
As part of the Enabling Works Contract for High Speed Two (HS2) Phase One, significant works were required in the congested area around Euston, with many different stakeholders involved. All parties required information about where works were taking place, the nature of these works and the impacts on traffic management in the area. Traffic management…
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Being a good sustainable neighbour
As the first teams on the ground, in 2017 early works contractors started legacy building against a backdrop of negative public sentiment, political pressure, unsupportive media publicity and protest activity. During those first three years, the project went through government reviews and various challenges, which made people constantly question whether the project was going ahead,…
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Virtual community engagement reached a wider audience with better results
HS2 has proactively engaged with proximal stakeholders and the wider community to communicate works and build public sentiment and advocacy for the scheme. Face-to-face engagement, meetings and public events have been commonplace. However, in early 2020 the world changed with the rising threat of the Covid-19 pandemic. The nature of HS2’s engagement needed to adapt…
