‘Depoliticising infrastructure’: can a strategic approach enhance public engagement?

In a recent seminar co-hosted by Dialogue by Design and the UCL Transport Institute a simple question was posed: when Government plans to invest £375 billion in infrastructure projects up to 2020, how can this be done with local communities, rather than against them? Here Morgan Wild discusses the prospects for depoliticising infrastructure, the challenges this raises for democratic accountability and the ways in which an independent body could make the public voice in infrastructure decision-making a little louder.