Consultation and engagement
When the consultation will happen
The exact date for consultation starting has not been finalised. Further updates will be available in due course.
How you can have your say
Once the consultation goes live, feedback can be given via the Council’s consultation hub.
Sign up to a mailing list to be kept informed about consultation
You can email futuretrams@edinburgh.gov.uk with your email address giving us consent to contact you. We will email you when a start date for the consultation has been finalised.
Why we are doing market research on this project
Given the importance of the project to the city, Councillors asked that we do market research in addition to standard consultation. This has been done recently on other projects, such as Circulation Plan and City Mobility Plan, and is recommended as part of the Council’s approach to consultation on large projects.
How we define stakeholders
We use the Scottish Government’s National Standards for Community Engagement to develop consultations. The Council uses an Integrated Impact Assessment (IIA) approach to ensure we are complying with our equality and diversity obligations. This is particularly important with regards those who have protected characteristics.
We have used the IIA checklist to identify organisations we must consider as part of any consultation and engagement. These were listed in Appendix 1 of the 1 February 2024 committee report. We wrote to these organisations ahead of committee to advise them of the report and to confirm we would write again advising of consultation start date and encouraging participation.
As well as this, we are engaging with Council colleagues in biodiversity, ecology planning, active travel, public transport, parks and greenspaces to allow them to highlight to their networks that the consultation is taking place and to encourage participation.
We will also be implementing a communications plan to highlight the consultation and encourage feedback.
We will continue to monitor the stakeholder list and will add to it where necessary.
Information we have given to Councillors about consulting on this expansion
Briefings were provided to all political parties. These were based on the content that was provided to the Transport and Environment Committee on 1 February 2024.