Webinar
Planning for People: How community engagement can transform project delivery
Tues 2 Dec, 1.00-2.00pm GMT
Delivering effective transport projects isn’t just about infrastructure – it’s about people.
Understanding how communities move, interact and experience change is critical to creating solutions that work in the real world.
Join us for this timely webinar with Nicola Kane (Steer) and Felicity Heathcote-Marcz (Bare Analysis), who will share lessons from their recent work on Sheffield City Council’s Access & Movement Plan (shortlisted for a CiHT award) – an ambitious project shaped through deep community engagement, ethnographic research and focus groups exploring travel behaviour, accessibility and place-making.
Building on their insights shared at the Local Transport Summit 2025, our speakers will explore:
- Practical approaches to engaging diverse communities in transport planning.
- How to turn local insight into actionable design and policy decisions.
- The benefits of collaboration between planners, behavioural researchers and local voices.
Whether you’re developing a new movement strategy, public realm scheme or decarbonisation plan, this session will offer inspiration and real-world techniques for bringing communities with you – not just consulting them.
Join the webinar
Discover practical techniques for turning community engagement into real-world design and policy decisions.
Your speakers
Nicola is a strategic transport planner and client lead for the North of England and Scotland at Steer. She specialises in developing transport strategies and business cases that integrate land use, mobility, and community priorities, and brings extensive experience navigating complex political and stakeholder environments. Formerly Head of Strategic Planning, Insight and Innovation at Transport for Greater Manchester, Nicola led the development of the Greater Manchester Transport Strategy 2040 and the £1bn+ City Region Sustainable Transport Settlement. A member of the Department for Transport’s Capital Review Panel, she continues to shape national thinking on transport investment and strategy, with a particular focus on sustainable mobility and people-centred planning. She is currently Chair of the Transport Planning Society.
Felicity is the founder of Bare Analysis, a research consultancy provides organisations with the essential research and insights they need to understand the problems they know they face, and the hidden problems that need support to uncover. Felicity specialises in immersive research methodologies, providing rigorous research design and project outcomes to both large and small organizations. Felicity has led and carried out behavioural research projects for large public and private sector clients and third sector, using qualitative approaches to deliver operational and customer-focused findings and results. Felicity also provides guest lectures to academic institutions.
