Read the engagement activity report of the Brixham Public Realm improvements.
Between Monday 3 and Friday 21 February 2025, residents and businesses, particularly those based in Brixham were encouraged to view and comment on the emerging ideas and share their thoughts on any other ideas they may have.
The emerging ideas that were developed by Torbay Council and Brixham Town Council were:
There were several ways that the community could find out about the proposals and share their
views.
Prior to public engagement on the proposals being made public, a meeting was held with Brixham Town Council on Friday 5 December 2024.
Brixham Town Council were involved in the planning of the public engagement activity. Members of the consultation team also met with the Brixham Chamber of Commerce on Thursday 6 January 2025.
Four short questions were asked to understand what respondents thought of the proposals and to
gauge how often they visited the area.
There is an issue with retrieving the online data from the council's software provider. The data currently only shows the number of respondents and not the breakdown of responses per question. The fault is under investigation with no timeline for resolution currently available.
Online respondents were asked to complete a short form that asked them to:
74 people completed the online form.
The AI tool, Chatpgt was asked to ‘Review to review the information and summarise the responses to each question and group together key themes that can be used in an evaluation report’.
The AI summary report concluded the following:
The dataset consists of 102 responses, each with feedback on public realm proposals and general ideas related to the Brixham area. The relevant columns for summarising the responses are:
The proposals were widely promoted across a range of Torbay Council channels (amplified by Brixham Town Council) to encourage participation.
A press release was issued on Tuesday 4 February 2025, a copy is published on Torbay Council’s
website.
The release generated coverage from the following outlets both online and on their social media
channels.
The proposals were promoted in the One Torbay weekly resident newsletter.
Friday 7 February 2025, to 11,882 subscribers, there were 492 clicks from the newsletter to the project page or the press release.
Friday 14 February, to 11,881 subscribers, there were 136 clicks from the newsletter to the project page.
Source: Gov Delivery, platform used by Torbay Council to send email updates.
The Members’ briefing was sent on Tuesday 4 February 2025. The briefing was shared with Brixham Town Council who cascaded to all Brixham Town Councillors.
A total of five social media posts were published across Facebook, LinkedIn, Instagram and Nextdoor to raise awareness of the proposals, ways to get involved and to encourage participation.
The top performing posts were on Facebook.
A summary of the top performing posts across the different social media platforms can be seen in the following images.
These posts generated 467 clicks to either the project webpage or the press release.
Posts generated a total of 352 reactions (likes), 71 shares and 112 comments.
Source: Orlo, Regeneration Campaign Report (3 February to 3 March 2025)
To support the face-to-face events, information boards on the proposals were printed and on display.
The community responded well to the proposals with most respondents either agreeing or partially agreeing with the ideas.
Some additional information is needed on the floating pontoon and harbour access safety proposals.
Both Brixham Town Council and Brixham Chamber of Commerce were fully supportive of the engagement activity which helped us to reach a wider audience.