{"id":9619,"date":"2015-02-20T16:38:06","date_gmt":"2015-02-20T16:38:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ihbconline.co.uk\/newsachive\/?p=9619"},"modified":"2015-02-20T16:38:06","modified_gmt":"2015-02-20T16:38:06","slug":"civic-voice-calls-for-participation-not-consultation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/?p=9619","title":{"rendered":"Civic Voice calls for \u2018Participation not consultation\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Civic Voice, the umbrella arm of local civic movements, has issued a new document \u2018Collaborative Planning for All\u2019 calling on those involved in the development process to make better use of community collaboration, with a \u2018Participation not consultation\u2019 approach using tools such a charrettes to bring better results for everyone.<\/span><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Civic Voice writes:<br \/>\n<\/span>It is time to change the way things are done and to bring communities genuinely to the heart of planning and place-making. \u2018Participation not Consultation\u2019 is about bringing people in at an early stage to develop the proposals through collaborative planning processes, also known as Charrettes.<\/p>\n<p>The Charrette approach involves community members working alongside local authorities and developers to co-create design-led, visual plans and strategies. It is an inspirational and energising activity where the results of collaboration are seen immediately, with the knowledge that an individual\u2019s input actually matters. It also has the potential to greatly increase the speed of the formal planning and design process.\u2019 (foreword, p3)<strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Case studies from London, Wick, Scarborough and Surrey are featured, as well as examples of how charettes can be carried out and comments on how they have been useful for communities and professionals.<strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.civicvoice.org.uk\/resources\/collaborative-planning-v2\/\" target=\"_blank\">Download the Collaborative Planning document<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/?s=charrette\" target=\"_blank\">IHBC newsblogs on charrettes<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Civic Voice, the umbrella arm of local civic movements, has issued a new document \u2018Collaborative Planning for All\u2019 calling on those involved in the development process to make better use of community collaboration, with a \u2018Participation not consultation\u2019 approach using &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/?p=9619\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9619","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sector-newsblog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9619","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9619"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9619\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9620,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9619\/revisions\/9620"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9619"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9619"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9619"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}