ABSTRACT
How these different actors came together to seek to shape the ideas within regional planning is at the core of the remainder of this book. Inevitably, this topic raises interesting questions about the governance of regional planning. In Chapter 1 we introduced the institutional framework for regional planning, and in Chapter 2 aspects of governance theory. Having introduced some of the key protagonists in the system, we now want to link these discussions by examining how the stakeholders of planning sought to engage with the revised regional planning system. In particular, we begin to unpick how actors within the system were subject to a variety of constraining influences, from both the top down and the bottom up.
