NR NR/GN/CIV/100/09 ISSUE 1 PDF

This document only sets out the steps required to engage local community and stakeholders impacted by the creation of a medium to small station, prior to construction of the station on site. 

Defining specific design deliverables such as materials, accessibility, sustainability, and security are beyond the scope of this document. However, such topics may be identified as important in the brief, thereby shaping how they are designed on a site to site basis, responding to place not a standardised approach.

This document is intended to be read in conjunction with other Network Rail guidance and includes references where relevant. 

Purpose 

This guidance should be the constant companion of all Project Sponsors and senior management, tasked with delivering medium and small stations. This document is intended as any easy aide-mémoire, to assure a methodical and effective approach to community engagement - to identify and create the best option. 

Each project can generate a complex network of contributors and stakeholders, and this handbook offers the means to identify, map, and track the growth of that community of interested parties. Engaging with the right bodies, at the right time, and in the right way, is the key to avoiding obstacles and delays in project delivery… and ultimately delivering stations that are far more than the sum of their parts