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THE second edition of Mr. D. M. Goodfellow's “Tyneside: the Social Facts”(Newcastle-upon-Tyne: Co-operative Printing Society, Ltd., 1941. 1s.) includes two further chapters on “Regions and their Planning” and on “Regions: the First Facts”, which are relevant to the discussion of the regional propositions in the recommendations of the Royal Commission on Local Government in the Tyneside Areas, adoption of which in the main was recommended in the original edition of the pamphlet. The first of these new chapters reviewing the operation of the Town and Country Planning Acts in practice, suggests that the real difficulties in Tyneside are not due to problems of compensation but to the multiplicity of authorities. Territorial planning is a means for reviving and developing the manufacturing and agricultural industries of the area, but these positive purposes will never be realized with the present authorities, and in the second new chapter an area comprising the geographical counties of Durham, Northumberland and the North Riding of Yorkshire is proposed as a possible unit which might come to be defined as a local government region. Such an amalgamation would be a very different matter from one based upon the Mersey, Manchester or Birmingham, but amalgamations are probably most difficult where they are most urgent. However desirable the formation of regions may be, it would not of itself automatically solve all the problems.
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Regional Propositions for Tyneside. Nature 149, 105 (1942). https://doi.org/10.1038/149105c0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/149105c0