Planning in the UK forum: justify your existence

[Dan]

In the two years the Planning in the UK fourm has been online, it has received very little posting activity. We were hoping the forum's presence would attract more users from the UK to Cyburbia. We don't know if more users from the UKoGBaNI joined because of it, but whatever the case, few are using it.

Best practice in message board administration is to have fewer busy forums rather than more less active forums. We may send out a mass email to Cyburbia users in the UK to see if it'll help generate more activity here. If this forum remains slow, the Planning in the UK forum will be dissolved, and its posts moved into other fourms.

[HappydaysAgain]

Hi Dan - Just found this site and its a shame more folks here in the UK don't appear to be posting on the forum. My guess is that planning controls in the UK are so onerous and time consuming that many people become fed up with the system and don't have the political will to seek change. Or the inclination to try and stop the green lobby which attempts to prevent modernization and renewal in favour of the 'green belt' . This is a shame, as around the Hertfordshire and Bedfordshire areas there are some interesting example of urban planning in the shape of the Garden City's established after the war. I hope a few more people from the UK support your forum.

Kind regards

Happydays.

[star_dust]

I think that the UK planning profession is going through its own 'recession'. I've only noticed a large UK planner presence on Facebook. I think new media sources for discussion hasn't caught on in the profession here yet.

I just think a forum of this type needs more time to attract UK planners.

[UKPlanner]

The discussion pages at www.planningresource.co.uk appear well used. Perhaps this site needs a bit more advertising? I'll post a link on the planningresource discussion boards and see what happens.