PLan – the Planning Action Network Inc

Category: Blog & Opinion

  • ‘The State of the nation starts with you’, by Hugh Mackay.

    ‘The State of the nation starts with you’, by Hugh Mackay.

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    Published in The Conversation. Author: Hugh Mackay, Honorary Professor of Social Science, University of Wollongong; Adjunct Professor, Faculty of Arts, Charles Sturt University Disclosure statement: Hugh Mackay does not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any company or organisation that would benefit from this article, and has disclosed no relevant affiliations…

  • Consultation Tactics

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    AustFinancialReview3-10-11Bullying.pdf

  • Visit our Shopfront Information Centre

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    A lot of hard work has gone into setting up our new Information Centre at Shop 26/16, Charlton Court, Woolner, opposite Middys Lighting. This is down the hill from Le Cornu’s. There is environmental and planning information in books, magazines, and maps, on our databases, photographs and displays. We open on Thursdays from noon to…

  • Find out what is happening around the community

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    Be prepared!  Residents need to be aware of how planning changes can affect their own way of life, quite suddenly. Be alerted to what development or planning applications are being made in your immediate area by this handy website – just type in your address and you will receive an email alerting you to any…

  • Residents Meetings – Take action when it is needed

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    Yesterday, I attended a residents’ meeting at Leanyer. There people are working with the two local members- Paul Henderson and Peter Styles to save a fine section of eucalypt vegetation environment between their homes and the new suburb of Muirhead. People are passionate in these situations, and should not be afraid to act. Suburban Darwin…

  • Our environment and Darwin Harbour

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    Industrial development is threatening  the environment in which we live. Without a ‘best practice’ transparent executive EPA, and minus  a strong and independent Darwin Harbour Management Committee, the  land and sea environment of Darwin will continue to be destroyed. We need to tell  governments, or all persuasions, that this approach is not sustainable.Development needs to…

  • Convener’s Message

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    Welcome, Members, Supporters and Visitors to our New Website Worldwide planning for community is now essentially recognised.  It is makes for feelings of well-being, community spirit, and cohesion,        instead of alienation and despair. Time and again our health and policing costs are affected by poor community planning. Planning is much more than approving single buildings,…

  • NIMBY’s, NIABY’s and DIMBA’s

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    This brilliant piece – a defence of community groups rights to object – was written by an objector after she was attacked in the paper for being a NIMBY. This is her response…

  • Down Disconsolate Streets

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    Our northern capital survived being bombed and blown away only to have its heart torn out by rapacious development. By Nicholas Rothwell READER, come, and drive with me down the mean, degraded streets of the city I most love. Our journey will be brief, but full of memories, and pain, and sharp surprise. Let’s start…