For this episode, Paul is joined by Henry Bliss of Give My View, the app that makes it far easier for developers to engage with communities, find and motivate potential project supporters and effectively deal with any local objections. It creates surveys that are fast and easy to complete. Ensuring all voices are heard, rather than just the NIMBY view.

KEY TAKEAWAYS

• Traditional consultation methods only hear from a vocal minority, usually older people with time, which drowns out the perspectives of the broader community.
• Give My View makes it really easy for anyone to have a say and can be used at any stage of project development.
• Providing feedback only takes a few minutes and is available across all devices.
  The Give My View team can help developers to ask the right questions in a format
  that encourages honest and useful answers.
• If you ask people – Do you want this here? Most will automatically say no. It´s human nature to say no to change. So, don´t ask that type of question.
  Using social media ads to ask people to take part enables you to target people in a very specific area.
• Be concise, often people will be filling out the survey in the few minutes they get
  between tasks.

BEST MOMENTS
“You are able to speak to the silent majority, so people who aren't against change, people
who aren't NIMBYs (get a voice too).”
“We can engage with 1000s of people if the project scope allows.”
“With a small marketing budget, we can bring 1000s of new eyeballs to your survey ads.”
“People have a greater connection to things they help build.”
“Once people use us, they come back because they see the benefit.”

EPISODE RESOURCES
https://www.givemyview.com
https://www.linkedin.com/in/henry-bliss-969b933b

ABOUT THE HOST
 
Paul Higgs is a Chartered Planning and Development Surveyor with 40+ years' experience in land, planning and development and a 100% success track record in winning planningconsents.
Paul undertook his first refurb project when he was just 17 and then worked his way up from labouring on building sites to becoming Head of Land for renowned plc housebuilder, Barratt Developments. He managed to escape the corporate world in 2002 to set up what is now a multimillion-pound award-winning property development company, Millbank Group.
In 2013 Paul founded the Millbank Land Academy, the UK’s first training company dedicated to property development; to teach established and aspiring developers the insider secrets the big housebuilders don’t want you to know! 
Paul is also a founding investor and former board director of the industry-leading PropTech Co, LandTech, and has lectured on Advanced Development Valuations on the MSc Property Development at London South Bank University.
 
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