The full range of views expressed should be acknowledged and attention drawn to area of agreement and disagreement.
The results must be summarised in a fair and transparent manner and must be made available to all who wish to receive them. Allow sufficient time to analyse your results. As good practice you must give a balanced account of the responses you have received. Local communities are not homogenous, so stakeholders will frequently express a range of views.
During planning you should identify
key stakeholders and whose views will be given most weight. This should include
any information that you were informed about which didn’t relate directly
to the issue that you had defined. This information could well be useful to
someone else, and will enable them to use that information rather than going
out to consult another time.