ABSTRACT
The South-East Study expects three and a half million more people in the South-East region by 1981. This has been accepted by the government as a basis for planning. The South-East Study proposals are similarly a strengthening of the elements in the existing settlement pattern of the South-East which are best able to counteract the steadily expanding dominance of London. The period 1945-1950 was one of stultification: there was obsolete planning machinery and no way of dealing with the problems of regional growth, while the problems of rapid change in the central city were generally ignored. The Regional Planning Commission had ultimate responsibility for all Federal questions in the area, but only after formal consultation with the National Capital Planning Commission and the National Capital Regional Planning Council, on which the surrounding local authorities are represented.
