Why Community Buy-In Now Belongs in the Financing Model
Social licence has stopped being a box-ticking exercise and has become a real driver of schedule, cost and what can ultimately be recovered.
Local opposition rarely kills a project outright — it slows it down. And on a long, capital-heavy project, a delay behaves exactly like a loss.
That's why we build community relations, local hiring commitments and rehabilitation planning into the financing model itself, with a measurable bearing on schedule risk, rather than treating them as reporting duties handled after the fact.
Sponsors who put in the work on consent early tend to draw funds down faster and come back to the table less often to renegotiate. We can see that pattern in our own portfolio.
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