Local authorities, planners and architects are failing to deliver truly meaningful youth participation with their projects. Youth participation policies remain cursory, with the young person having little if any real voice in discussions and decision making process around their own built environment.

Young people must be heard. They need to be taken seriously and provided with real opportunities to inform each stage of a project; from planning, to implementation and right through to evaluation. What can we do to ensure that young people’s participation with projects of all scales is indeed genuine and not tokenistic?

You can find out more about how we approach working with young people and empowering them through active particiation here.