How to plan for climate change without a huge budget or extensive public meetings

While the MfE guidance for councils on adapting to climate change highlights quality technical data and community engagement as essential elements in developing successful adaptation plans, that doesn't mean every plan needs to have a huge consultancy budget or include an extensive series of public meetings.

Individual staff members in district and unitary councils who need to plan for climate change adaptation related to stormwater, flood risk, land drainage or another specific issue have the option of adopting the lower cost approaches to coastal hazard assessments (such as reviews of existing reports and problems, and discussions with experienced staff), and less resource-intensive options for community engagement (such as interviews with key people).
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• Here's my blog on implementing the new climate change guidance.