Consultation Portal

Description

To provide for go live in January 2023, and subsequently support, a cloud-based service to facilitate a statutory iterative public consultation process online, with interactive mapping, consisting of three main elements:1. Publication on a public-facing website of a) consultation proposals (including both narrative and interactive mapping) and b) responses received to earlier phases of the consultation.2. Ability for public to efficiently search the published material and submit their written response (including various forms of attachments) to the consultation via the same website, during defined consultation periods (and not at other times), with meta-tagging of those responses on submission, to aid collation and analysis.3. Back end database functionality to store all responses received: automatic storage for responses received via consultation portal, plus ability to manually add scanned versions of hard copy or emailed responses receivedThe work includes the provision of a both an English and a Welsh language version of the service.