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THE local rates show the same wide fluctuation, and Mr. Goodfellow points out that if civic conscience is to be developed, Newcastle, Gosforth and Whitley Bay and Monkseaton must enter a unified Tyneside and give it the benefit of their rateable value. The attitude of mind which has allowed business people to reside in Gosforth on profits made out of Jarrow or Felling or Hebburn, while disowning all responsibility for even the barest minimum of decent existence in Jarrow, Felling or Hebburn is utterly inconsistent with civic decency. Mr. Goodfellow considers that the new region should also include Durham, partly to avoid Tyneside, as an industrial region, being swamped by a conservative and agricultural county, which has not yet shown itself to possess industrial standards in its social services, and partly because of Durham's achievements in the development of such services, and he also points out the example set by some of the districts such as Felling in changing their character from a slum-ridden overcrowded little town to one of the best garden cities in the country. If such districts lose control of their own civic life the division of powers between local and regional authorities will require the closest consideration to avoid friction or deadlock, and Mr. Goodfellow advocates the transfer of control of all services and ownership of all public utilities to the regional authority as most conducive to social development.
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Civic Authority and Social Development. Nature 146, 485–486 (1940). https://doi.org/10.1038/146485d0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/146485d0