ABSTRACT
We have now described some trends towards innovation and experiment at both the regional and local levels of inter-agency planning in Britain. In our belief, such trends combine to create a promising setting in which to explore the practical implications of the general propositions and guidelines formulated in Chapter 13 , allowing them to be translated into somewhat more specific and concrete forms. However, we must also recognise that, during the last quarter of the twentieth century, the institutional context of local and regional planning in Britain will itself differ radically from that which has provided the setting for the case histories of the preceding chapters, because of the introduction during the nineteen-seventies of a sweeping programme of far-reaching structural reforms.
