Hello Many thanks for participating at the Reading Urban Room in March this year. We collated all information from the CCQOL Reading website, notes and observations during the Urban Room, and collected some post Urban Room data to write a local report of findings. Please find below the link to download the report. The CCQOL team has successfully tested Urban Rooms in Cardiff, Edinburgh, and Belfast in the last 6 months. In the next phase of the project, we will do a data analysis of all four cities and write a larger publication of learnings. We will have an update on this mid next year. You can also find updates on the CCQOL website at <a href="https://ccqol.org/">https://ccqol.org/</a> Best wishes Ruchit On behalf of the CCQOL Reading Team <a href="https://s3-eu-west-2.amazonaws.com/commonplace-customer-assets/ccqolreading/Reading%20CCQOL%20Report%20updated%2020221017.pdf"></a> <a href="https://s3-eu-west-2.amazonaws.com/commonplace-customer-assets/ccqolreading/Reading%20CCQOL%20Report%20updated%2020221017.pdf">Reading CCQOL Report updated 20221017.pdf</a>

The CCQOL Reading Urban Room Report is out!

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Hello, Reading Community!
We would like to thank you for your participation in our pilot urban room, Your Place Our Place, in Broad Street Mall, as well as on our online community consultation at <a href="https://ccqolreading.commonplace.is/">https://ccqolreading.commonplace.is/</a> We successfully held nearly 60 events in the course of 5 weeks over March 2022 with an average of 200 visitors/week in the urban room. Our digital map, hosted by Commonplace, has more than 1200 visitors since launched on 23 February, nearly 300 contributors and more than 170 respondents.We are currently still encouraging the Reading community to participate in our research project until the end of April. We would appreciate your help to spread the word and share the links below to the community that you are a part of and to continue your support to encourage the participation. The feedback from the local communities both as an individual and as an organization on how to make community consultations better and more effective is extremely important to us at Community Consultation for Quality of Life project .Easy link to the digital map for mobile devices: <a href="http://bit.ly/ccqol">bit.ly/ccqol</a> Easy link to participation survey: <a href="https://ccqolreading.commonplace.is/proposals/participationsurvey/step1">https://ccqolreading.commonplace.is/proposals/participationsurvey/step1</a> The last few weeks have been so positive for us and we hope to continue supporting community consultation in Reading in the future and we will keep you updated as we develop future community initiatives.Thank you all and all the members of your community groups and organizations for your support over the last few months. We have only been able to create the community space with the support of all of you and we have enjoyed getting to know you all.Reading CCQoL Team

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Thank you for visiting the Reading Urban Room “Your Place Our Place” and doing the mapping survey! Please find the link below to enter the <a href="https://ccqolreading.commonplace.is/proposals/participationsurvey/step1">participation survey</a> .https://ccqolreading.commonplace.is/proposals/participationsurvey/step1Your answers will help make community consultations more effective!For further information, please contact Ruchit Purohit at r.p.purohit@reading.ac.ukThank you Ruchit

Last few days of the Reading Urban Room! Please have your say!

We need your help to develop the Quality of Life maps of Reading. These will tell us about what you value in your place and help us create a wide-ranging resource of local knowledge.

Tell us about Reading and how the town affects your quality of life!

The researchers conducting this consultation may be interested in collecting further information on your experience of contributing to this digital consultation. May we contact you for this research?

CCQoL Reading

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Click here to hear more about and view the report developed off the back of the Reading CCQoL Urban Rooms

Reading CCQoL Report

Many thanks for participating at the Reading Urban Room in March this year. We collated all information from the CCQOL Reading website, notes and observations during the Urban Room, and collected some post Urban Room data to write a local report of findings. Please find below the link to download the report.The CCQOL team has successfully tested Urban Rooms in Cardiff, Edinburgh, and Belfast in the last 6 months. In the next phase of the project, we will do a data analysis of all four cities and write a larger publication of learnings. We will have an update on this mid 2023.You can also find updates on the CCQOL website at <a data-id="b3a45500-86fd-4b39-8734-3238661494dc" data-uw-rm-brl="false" href="https://ccqol.org/">https://ccqol.org/</a><a href="https://s3-eu-west-2.amazonaws.com/commonplace-customer-assets/ccqolreading/Reading%20CCQOL%20Report%20updated%2020221017.pdf" data-id="4c0b7974-3852-43c9-b11e-cc0256012b10" data-uw-rm-empty-ctrl="" data-uw-pdf-br="1" data-uw-pdf-doc=""></a><a data-id="4c0b7974-3852-43c9-b11e-cc0256012b10" data-uw-pdf-br="1" data-uw-pdf-doc="" href="https://s3-eu-west-2.amazonaws.com/commonplace-customer-assets/ccqolreading/Reading%20CCQOL%20Report%20updated%2020221017.pdf">Reading CCQOL Report updated 20221017.pdf</a>

Click on the purple "Have your say" button and drop a pin on a location where:

• You connect with nature

• You go to feel healthy

• You feel a sense of belonging

• You feel a sense of wonder

• You feel you have a sense of control over your environment

• You find it easy to get around your area.

You can come back and place multiple pins on the map.

Comment on the map of your neighbourhood

The Quality of Life Foundation has developed a framework to bring together, collect and measure the elements that contribute to quality of life in housing and neighbourhoods. These have been defined as  Control, Health, Nature, Wonder, Movement, Belonging. 


The Quality of Life Framework

The Quality of Life Foundation is addressing the changes that can be made across the development industry to ensure that homes are acquired, planned, constructed, and managed to actively provide a better quality of life for everyone. It has developed a framework to bring together, collect and measure the elements that contribute to quality of life in housing and neighbourhoods. These have been defined as &nbsp;Control, Health, Nature, Wonder, Movement, Belonging.&nbsp;For more information, please visit the foundation website <a contenteditable="false" href="https://www.qolf.org/" title="https://www.qolf.org/">https://www.qolf.org/</a>

Which are the 6 Quality of Life Framework themes and how do my pins relate to them?

<img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/commonplace-digital-limited/image/upload/v1644239778/projects/k9mhd84tobrmhmhfbhv6.png" style="width: 100%;" class="fr-fic fr-dib">ControlThis location could be:<ul style="text-align: left;"><li style="text-align: left;">where you have contributed to making it better</li><li style="text-align: left;">where you feel a sense of safety and security</li></ul><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/commonplace-digital-limited/image/upload/v1644239831/projects/uutsbbubnbvcenvjurhg.png" style="width: 100%;" class="fr-fic fr-dib">HealthThis location could be:<ul><li style="text-align: left;">a place where the air quality is good</li><li style="text-align: left;">where you for exercise/ recreation/ sports</li></ul><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/commonplace-digital-limited/image/upload/v1644239867/projects/hqzex5npgmjlaxqybwrs.png" style="width: 100%;" class="fr-fic fr-dib">NatureThis location could be:<ul><li style="text-align: left;">a place where you enjoy being with plants and wildlife</li><li style="text-align: left;">a place where you grow things like food</li></ul><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/commonplace-digital-limited/image/upload/v1644239950/projects/rvifjs0qqvbog7dovs0z.png" style="width: 100%;" class="fr-fic fr-dib">WonderThis location could be:<ul><li style="text-align: left;">a spiritual place</li><li style="text-align: left;">a place that feels unique and special to you</li></ul><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/commonplace-digital-limited/image/upload/v1644239972/projects/vuufm2huddcteypgfq7i.png" style="width: 100%;" class="fr-fic fr-dib">MovementThis location could be:<ul><li style="text-align: left;">a place with good transport links</li><li style="text-align: left;">a regular route that you take (by car, bike, cycle, walking, or public transport)</li></ul><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/commonplace-digital-limited/image/upload/v1644240006/projects/jwa287ousg9nyvrovyel.png" style="width: 100%;" class="fr-fic fr-dib">BelongingThis location could be:<ul><li style="text-align: left;">where you connect with others</li><li style="text-align: left;">where people of different backgrounds meet</li><li style="text-align: left;">where you access local services like a shop or doctor&#39;s surgery</li></ul>

<h3 id="isPasted"><a href="https://ccqolreading.commonplace.is/map/neighbourhood" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Go back to the Map and add your pins!</a></h3>What is the Quality of Life Framework&nbsp;The Quality of Life Framework addresses the changes that can be made across the development industry to ensure that homes are acquired, planned, constructed, and managed to actively provide a better quality of life for everyone. The Framework attempts to bring together all the elements relating to the built environment that contribute to quality of life such as Control, Health, Nature, Wonder, Movement, Belonging.&nbsp;What is Quality of Life?&quot;The aim of the Quality of Life Foundation is to improve people&rsquo;s quality of life by making health and wellbeing central to the way we create and care for our homes and communities.Quality of life describes a person&rsquo;s physical, social, and psychological wellbeing. It draws attention to the accumulated impact of the day-to-day, which is the level to which individuals may feel their lives to be happy, active, sociable, interesting, and meaningful. It encompasses a multiplicity of desirable conditions that are overlapping and have different scales, but which are partly influenced by the built environment &ndash; the buildings and neighbourhoods where people live. We believe that if we can improve this built environment then we can improve people&rsquo;s quality of life.&quot;- Professor Sadie Morgan OBE,&nbsp;Chair, Quality of Life FoundationFor more information, please visit the <a href="https://www.qolf.org/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Quality of Life Foundation</a> website.<h3 id="isPasted"><a href="https://ccqolreading.commonplace.is/map/neighbourhood" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Go back to the Map and add your pins!</a></h3>

Please share your experience of participating in the consultation exercise (and if you visited the Urban Room). (Respondents take approx 5 mins to answer the following questions)