Branded Consultation Microsites
Every consultation deserves its own professional website. Give each project a dedicated consultation URL with your organisation’s branding, colours and identity — building the public trust that drives meaningful engagement. No more generic survey links or impersonal forms. ConsultOnline microsites are fully branded consultation portals that look and feel like your own website, purpose-built for public planning consultations across the UK.
Custom Branding
Apply your organisation’s colours, logo and banner image so every public consultation microsite looks and feels like your own website. Residents immediately recognise and trust the source.
Dedicated Consultation URL
Every consultation gets its own subdomain or custom domain — a memorable, dedicated consultation URL that’s easy to share on letters, flyers, posters and social media. No more cryptic survey links.
Professional Appearance
Modern, polished design that builds confidence from the first click. Residents see a professional consultation website — not a generic form — which encourages deeper, more thoughtful engagement.
Building Public Confidence
Why branded microsites matter for public trust
Public consultations succeed or fail on participation rates. When a resident receives a letter about a proposed development or infrastructure change, their first instinct is to search online. If they land on a professional, branded consultation portal that clearly identifies the responsible organisation — complete with familiar logos, colours and contact details — they’re far more likely to engage. A dedicated consultation website signals that the organisation takes the process seriously and values the community’s input.
Conversely, when consultations rely on generic survey links or third-party form builders, residents often hesitate. An unfamiliar URL with no recognisable branding raises questions: Is this legitimate? Who is running this? Where does my data go? These doubts suppress response rates and undermine the very purpose of the consultation. A branded consultation microsite eliminates that friction entirely. It provides a trustworthy, recognisable destination that residents can verify at a glance.
Beyond trust, branded microsites also improve the quality of responses. When residents feel they are participating in a well-organised, professional process, they invest more time and thought in their answers. They explore the exhibition materials, read the supporting documents and provide detailed, constructive feedback. This is the difference between a consultation that ticks a box and one that genuinely shapes better outcomes for the community.
How It Works
Your brand, your consultation website
Configure Branding
Upload your logo and banner image. Set primary and secondary colours to match your organisation’s identity. Choose your subdomain or connect a custom domain. Add your favicon, footer content and social media preview images. Your consultation website is ready to look exactly like your own.
Publish Content
Add your consultation pages, interactive surveys, maps, exhibition galleries, document downloads and timeline milestones. Everything lives together on one dedicated community engagement site — giving residents a single, comprehensive destination for the entire consultation.
Share & Engage
Send residents to your branded consultation URL via letters, emails, social media, QR codes and posters. They get a seamless, professional experience from start to finish — on desktop, tablet and mobile. Track engagement in real time through your analytics dashboard.
Who It’s For
Designed for every organisation that consults the public
Whether you’re an energy provider running a DCO consultation or a developer consulting on housing scheme, branded microsites give you a professional consultation website that reflects your identity.
Local Authorities
Run statutory and non-statutory consultations on a branded consultation portal that carries your council’s identity. Build resident confidence with a recognisable, official consultation website for Local Plan reviews, planning applications and policy consultations.
Parish & Town Councils
Engage your community with a professional consultation project page, even with a small team and limited budget. Neighbourhood plans, village hall proposals and local amenity consultations all benefit from a dedicated, branded presence online.
Planning Consultancies
Deliver client-branded consultation websites for every project. White-label your planning consultation website with each client’s identity, demonstrating professionalism while streamlining your consultation workflow across multiple simultaneous engagements.
Housing Associations
Consult tenants and residents on regeneration proposals, estate improvements and new developments using a branded community engagement site that carries your housing association’s trusted identity and makes participation straightforward.
Developers
Deliver pre-planning public consultation websites branded to your company or the project itself. Present proposals, gather community feedback and demonstrate genuine engagement.
Transport Authorities
For consulting on route changes, branded microsites give any engagement an efficient means of collating data. Build legitimacy and encourage participation with a purpose-built community engagement site.
See how a branded microsite could work for you
Book a short demo and we’ll show you how quickly your organisation can launch a professional consultation website - fully branded, fully responsive and ready for public engagement.
Capabilities
Complete branding control for your consultation website
Every detail of your public consultation microsite can be customised to match your organisation’s identity. No compromises, no generic templates.
Full Customisation
Complete control over your consultation brand
Your consultation website should be unmistakably yours. ConsultOnline gives you granular control over every visual element of your branded consultation portal. Upload your organisation’s logo and it appears in the header of every page. Set your primary and secondary brand colours and they flow through buttons, links, headings and accents across the entire site. Add a hero banner image with customisable overlay text to create a striking first impression that immediately communicates what the consultation is about.
Beyond visual branding, you control the structure and content of your consultation website. Create and edit pages with a rich text editor, organise your navigation to guide residents through the information logically and upload supporting documents for download. Set a custom favicon so your microsite looks professional in browser tabs and bookmarks. Configure social media preview images so that when residents share your dedicated consultation URL on Facebook, Instagram or LinkedIn, it displays a polished, branded card.
For organisations that want the highest level of professionalism, custom domain support lets you host your planning consultation website on your own domain name. Whether that’s consultation.yourcouncil.gov.uk or a project-specific domain, ConsultOnline handles the technical setup with a simple CNAME record — no IT team required.
Everything You Need
What’s included in every microsite
Every branded consultation portal comes fully loaded with the features your public consultation needs to succeed. No add-ons, no hidden extras.
Custom Branding & Colours
Your logo, your colours, your identity. Every element of the consultation website reflects your organisation’s brand — from buttons and headers to the footer.
Dedicated URL or Subdomain
Choose a memorable subdomain on consultonline.uk or connect your own custom domain. A clear, trustworthy dedicated consultation URL that’s easy to print on letters, flyers and posters.
Responsive Mobile Design
Every responsive consultation site works beautifully on desktop, tablet and mobile. Residents can engage from any device, anywhere, with a layout that adapts automatically to their screen.
Exhibition Gallery
Upload exhibition boards, images, plans and renders into a browsable gallery. Residents can explore the proposals visually, replicating the experience of an in-person exhibition event, online.
Document Library
Share planning documents, environmental reports, design statements and supporting materials. Residents can download everything they need to make an informed response, all from one consultation project page.
Timeline & Key Dates
Display the consultation timeline, key milestones and deadlines clearly. Residents can see at a glance when the consultation opens, when events are happening and when their feedback is due.
FAQ
Frequently asked questions
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