Branded Consultation Websites
Give your project a recognisable place online where people can explore proposals, find updates and take part. Choose a branded microsite for a straightforward consultation, or a dedicated project website for more freedom over design, pages and navigation.
Choose Your Website
Two ways to bring your consultation online
Branded Microsite
An established consultation structure with your logo, colours and project content. A practical choice when you want a clear, consistent way to present proposals and collect feedback, with fewer layout decisions to make.
Dedicated Project Website
A fuller website available with Bespoke, with a choice of visual styles and greater control over pages, content blocks and navigation. Ideal for projects with more to explain or several stages of engagement.
Connected Consultation Tools
Both options bring project information and participation together through ConsultOnline. Choose the package with the surveys, maps, documents and engagement tools your consultation needs.
Understand the Difference
Microsite or dedicated website?
A branded microsite gives you a ready-made structure for a consultation. Add your project identity, proposals and supporting information, then use the consultation tools included in your package. It suits teams who want a focused public destination without designing a whole website.
A dedicated project website gives you more control over how the story unfolds. Build out topic pages, choose layouts and organise navigation around the questions your community is asking. Available with the Bespoke package, it suits more detailed proposals and projects that need an ongoing public presence.
The difference is the flexibility of the website, rather than simply its address. Subdomain and custom-domain options depend on package and configuration, and a custom domain can also be used with a microsite. Choose based on the content, presentation and support your project needs.
How It Works
Your brand, your consultation website
Choose Your Website
Decide whether an established microsite structure or a dedicated project website fits your consultation. Agree the package, branding, domain and level of setup support before building your content.
Prepare Your Content
Add proposals, documents and the participation tools included in your package. For a dedicated website, choose a visual style and arrange pages, content blocks and navigation around your project.
Review, Publish & Share
Check the content, accessibility and mobile presentation before launch. Share the website through letters, email, social media and QR codes, then keep people informed as the consultation progresses.
Who It’s For
Designed for every organisation that consults the public
From a focused local consultation to a complex development programme, choose the website format that gives your community the information and participation opportunities it needs.
Local Authorities
Present planning proposals and policy consultations with a recognisable council identity. Choose a focused microsite or use a dedicated website to organise a broader programme of information and updates.
Parish & Town Councils
Give neighbourhood plans, village hall proposals and local projects a clear public destination. A branded microsite provides an established structure that is straightforward for a small team to manage.
Planning Consultancies
Present each consultation with the relevant client or project identity. Choose a microsite or dedicated website to match the scope, while managing content and engagement through ConsultOnline.
Housing Associations
Keep tenants and residents informed about estate improvements, regeneration and new developments. A dedicated website can bring together proposals, project updates and the next opportunities to take part.
Developers
Explain the vision for a development and give residents a clear route to respond. For more detailed schemes, use a dedicated website to present different topics, project stages and supporting materials.
Transport Authorities
Explain route changes, transport proposals and key dates in one place. Use a microsite for a focused consultation or a dedicated website to help people navigate more complex proposals.
See which website fits your project
Book a demo to compare a branded microsite with a dedicated project website. We can walk through the presentation options, consultation tools and support available for your project.
Capabilities
A recognisable home for your consultation
Bring your project identity, information and participation together. The controls and tools available depend on your package and website format; dedicated websites add more flexibility over layout and navigation.
Dedicated Project Websites
More room to tell your project’s story
Some projects need more than an established consultation structure. A dedicated website gives you space to explain a complex proposal in stages, lead visitors through the details and keep the wider project story easy to follow.
Choose a visual style that suits your organisation, then shape the pages and navigation around your content. Keep project news, milestones and outcomes alongside opportunities to take part, so residents have a familiar place to return to throughout the agreed project period.
Included with Bespoke
What a dedicated website makes possible
Use the dedicated website builder to shape the public experience around your project. Agree the pages, consultation tools, hosting period and support you need as part of your Bespoke package.
A Style That Fits Your Project
Choose from website styles and configure the branding to suit your organisation or scheme. Give the project a consistent identity across its pages, imagery and content.
Space for Complex Proposals
Give key topics their own pages so residents can find the detail relevant to them. Explain the overall vision, then make supporting information easy to explore.
Flexible Pages & Navigation
Arrange content blocks and organise menus around your audience’s questions. Guide visitors from the project overview to the details and the next step in taking part.
Richer Visual Storytelling
Bring text, imagery, video and supporting documents together in page layouts that suit the material. Help residents understand what is proposed and how it relates to their area.
A Home for Project Updates
Keep news, milestones and outcomes available alongside the proposals. Give people a familiar place to return to as the project moves through its agreed stages.
Information Connected to Participation
Bring the consultation tools in your package into the wider website experience. Help residents move from understanding the proposals to sharing their views.
FAQ
Frequently asked questions
Ready to launch your branded consultation website?
Choose a branded microsite or a dedicated project website that fits your content, audience and consultation. Talk to us about the right format and package for your project.
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