Indigo Public Affairs

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Indigo Public Affairs is niche lobbying firm specialising in plannning issues. It has a network of offices in London, Birmingham, Manchester and Newcastle.

(Note: Not to be confused with Indigo (PR) Ltd, Indigo PR Co Ltd or Indigo Strategic Communications).

Indigo offers "community consultation and political communications advice that helps our clients gain planning committee approval". "We are very good at what we do and we have an outstanding track record of gaining planning committee approval."[1]

Political connections

According to Indigo "Most of our team are politicians themselves and this enables us to help our clients talk with and engage the local community and stakeholders. We help them communicate and learn from local politicians and political decision makers. And we help them with any necessary media relations."[2]

Services

Indigo offers clients the following services:

  • Winning planning consent
  • Consulting the community
  • Local political project management
  • Effective media relations
  • Design, exhibitions and websites Indigo website

Clients

It was reported in February 2007 that Indigo PA had been hired to help build political support for London Markaz, dubbed a 'super mosque', by Tablighi Jamaat. Tablighi Jamaat is described as "a conservative and ultra-orthodox group with close links with the Wahhabi form of Islam practised in Saudi Arabia." Indigo is described as "a lobbying firm with a track record of supporting controversial planning applications".[3]

Contacts

Second Floor, Berkeley Square House London W1J 6BD
http://www.indigopublicaffairs.com

References

  1. Indigo website, accessed Feb 2009
  2. Indigo website, accessed Feb 2009
  3. Supermosque for 70,000 'will be blocked', Telegraph, 20 Feb 2007