Paul Erskine has launched Digital Stakeholder Engagement, a South-West planning-sector communications consultancy with specialist expertise in identifying and engaging with built environment stakeholders in diverse and complex communities using digital media.
Erskine recently moved on from Meeting Place Communications after five years where he was an Associate Director, with clients including Standard Life Investments, Good Energy, IM Properties and Generator Group. He previously spent two years at a public-sector quango.
The Bristol-based start-up consultancy will take a digital-focused approach that aims to maximise participation in the democratic process by demographic groups that are more likely to benefit from the built environment, such as first-time buyers, busy parents, local small business owners and job-seekers, whilst ensuring effective engagement with a range of other stakeholders that could potentially influence political decision-making and public policy.
Paul Erskine, Managing Director, said "The South West is likely to be our primary focus to start off with. I have particular experience in Bristol and I’ll be looking to make use of that experience in the first instance. Beyond that, I’ll be looking to move into new areas as the business grows, such as Wales, the Thames Valley, the Midlands and London, which all have similar planning and economic challenges to Bristol and the South West."