Community Consultation for Quality of Life (CCQoL)

社区咨询对于确保我们获得一个适合目的的建筑环境非常重要，并且可以成为与社区进行认真对话的机会，讨论如何最好地为每个人创造空间，而不是现在经常出现的敷衍了事和排斥性的事情。到目前为止，对于如何最好地收集社区对规划建议的反应，以纳入成功（高社会，环境和经济价值）的地方的设计和开发，几乎没有达成共识。最终，社区咨询在学习如何更好地设计建筑物和场所方面具有很大的未开发潜力，这在气候紧急情况下以及在大流行病之后“重建得更好”方面尤为重要。尽管该项目的重点是英国，但问题是全球性的，成果是可扩展的。在该国的一些地区，社区咨询在疫情期间停止，决策权下放给压力重重的规划官员，他们可能并不总是把社区的利益放在心上。英国政府即将对规划进行审查，以使该系统更加精简。这可能会危及以困难和缓慢而闻名的社区协商。迫切需要一个强大的，包容性的，物有所值的格式（数字和物理）来收集社区希望从其建筑物和场所获得的长期数据。创建这样一个平台是CCQoL的目标。CCQoL由阅读大学领导，在英国所有四个国家都有共同研究者，与生活质量基金会，社区咨询平台Commonplace，包容性咨询专家Urban Symbiotics和英国住房证据合作中心（CACHE）合作。它得到了广泛的政策和行业组织的支持，包括住房、社区和地方政府部（MHCLG）、公民之声和英国房地产联合会。在对社区协商的最佳做法进行审查之后，将设计用户体验（面对面和数字化），以便在联合王国四个国家中的每一个国家进行真实的规划应用试点。协商将在一个“城市房间”、一个社区空间、一个废弃的商店或在城市中突然出现的平行但相互关联的在线协商中进行。社区成员将被要求参与绘制地图，以显示他们在该地区的价值，并预测规划提案的潜在影响。将采用各种试验形式，使协商尽可能具有吸引力。将雇用当地社区伙伴关系管理人员，以鼓励包容性参与。这些平台将根据从试点中学习的经验加以完善。主要产出将是社区协商的数字格式。这将链接到CCQoL平台，这是一系列数字地图，将提供标准化格式，用于收集社区持续需求的数据，可扩展用于其他地方，并可能应用于其他决策领域。生活质量基金会和Commonplace将负责该平台在项目生命周期之后的进一步开发。还将制定实地面对面协商的指导方针，以及一系列关于联合王国四个规划背景中每一个背景的社区协商报告。这一务实的项目将得到通过一系列经评审的期刊论文发表的强有力的学术研究的支持。一代人在《模拟城市》等游戏中设计虚拟环境。CCQoL将为数字生成和构建的共同创建的建筑环境提供下一步。需要非常谨慎地设计这样一个未来的基础，以确保它发挥其积极潜力。

Community consultation is important for ensuring that we get a built environment that is fit for purpose and could be an opportunity for serious dialogue with the community about how best to make places for everybody, rather than the perfunctory and excluding affair it often is now. There is to date little consensus on how best to gather community responses to planning proposals to feed into the design and development of successful (high social, environmental and economic value) places. Ultimately community consultation has largely untapped potential for learning how the design of buildings and places can be done better, particularly important in the Climate Emergency and for 'building back better' in the aftermath of the pandemic. Although the focus of the project is on the UK, the problems are global and the outcomes scalable.In some parts of the country community consultation ceased during the pandemic, with decision making being delegated to pressurised Planning Officers who may not always have the interests of the community at heart. An imminent government review of planning in England is seeking to make the system more streamline. This could jeopardise community consultation which is known for being difficult and slow. A robust, inclusive, value for money format (digital and physical) for gathering data on what communities want from their buildings and places in the long term is urgently needed. To create such a platform is the aim of CCQoL.Led by the University of Reading, with Co-Investigators in all four countries of the UK, CCQoL is a collaboration with the Quality of Life Foundation, the community consultation platform Commonplace, inclusive consultation experts Urban Symbiotics and the UK Collaborative Centre for Housing Evidence (CACHE). It is supported by a wide range of policy and industry organisations including the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government (MHCLG), Civic Voice and the British Property Federation. Following a review of best practice in community consultation, user experiences (face to face and digital) will be designed for piloting on real planning applications in each of the four countries of the UK. Consultations will take place in an 'urban room', a community space, disused shop or pop up in the city with parallel, but interconnected, consultations on line. Community members will be asked to contribute to the making of maps to show what they value in the area and to anticipate the potential impacts of the planning proposal. A variety of experimental formats will be used to make the consultation as engaging as possible. Locally based Community Partnership Managers will be employed to encourage inclusive participation. The platforms will be refined based on learning from the pilots. The main output will be a digital format for community consultation. This will link to the CCQoL platform, a series of digital maps which will offer a standardised format for gathering data on what communities want on an ongoing basis, scalable for use elsewhere with potential applications for other spheres of decision making. The Quality of Life Foundation and Commonplace will be responsible for the further development of the platform beyond the life of the project. Guidance for delivering face to face consultation on the ground will also be developed, as well as a series of reports on community consultation for each of the four UK planning contexts. This pragmatic project will be underpinned by robust academic research published through a series of refereed journal papers. A generation has grown up designing virtual environments in games such as Sim City. CCQoL will provide the next step towards a digitally generated and constructed, co-created built environment. The foundations of such a future need to be designed with great care to ensure that it fulfils its positive potential.