ABSTRACT
This chapter emphasises: the importance of achieving greater co-ordination — both across agencies and across the spatiai scales of local, urban and regional; the need for regional impact assessments of mainstream spending and for the establishment of English regional agencies which could both co-ordinate development and add political muscle to attempts to compensate for regional inequity; the recognition of the role that infrastructural investment can play in leading the development process; and the importance of developing more effective targeting of resources to the people most in need. Developing a degree of local control through more effective decentralisation of a range of local activities is one prerequisite to removing the alienation which has sapped the spirit from local communities in inner areas. While there will always be competing claims from different ministries of central government, the most effective and efficient use of those resources can only come from policies which do not cancel out one another's effects.
