CEMEX, The Environment Agency (EA) and Rugby Borough Council (RBC) invited The Environment Council to conduct a review of stakeholder engagement arrangements around the Rugby Cement Plant, owned and managed by CEMEX.

The Brief agreed with The Environment Council was to conduct a series of interviews with key stakeholders and use the findings from these along with its own experience and case studies of best practice engagement to formulate a series of observations and recommendations on improving the stakeholder engagement process. These recommendations describe a best practice, optimal approach to addressing the issues specific to this context. They outline the processes, potential tools, mechanisms and models that would be applied to achieve greater trust, transparency, openness and clarity in stakeholder and community relations. These are ‘ideal world’ recommendations and exist outside of resource and time constraints.

The feedback received from the interviews has been carefully reviewed and collated to form a report, the recommendations of which are heavily informed by this feedback. The aim of this report is to help inform CEMEX, The Environment Agency and Rugby Borough Council in identifying possible future options for stakeholder engagement around the Rugby Cement Plant.

You can download the report here (.pdf, 322Kb)

If you have any comments or queries regarding this work, please contact Winsome Grigor by email or phone on 020 7632 0108.