Planners Network UK

Planners Network UK (pnuk) is an organisation seeking to establish a network to support critical thinking about the current state of planning in the UK

Their web site features a Draft Statement of Principles for PNUK:

"We are a network of people who believe in the transformative possibilities of planning and who wish to revitalise its social, political and environmental significance. Yet we are concerned about the corrosiveness of contemporary agendas that systematically produce injustice, undemocratic decision-making, inequality, and harm to our environment. In the face of those agendas, we have formed this network to provide an umbrella under which people can do two inter-related things:

Talk – where people can debate and share critical perspectives on mainstream dogma, and keep principles of justice on political agendas; and

Act – where people can work for progressive change by developing viable alternatives PNUK offers a forum for talk and action to bring about fundamental change through planning."

They:

"...hope that the network can appeal to a broad range of practitioners, academics and activists interested in rearticulating the progressive purpose of planning. Most importantly we hope to establish the basis for connecting all those concerned about the current climate of debate."

APSec has just been joined up to the pnuk e mail list and will shortly submit details about APT and our concerns to the network via the list.

For more information on pnuk click here