ABSTRACT
Early in 1943 a Ministry of Town and Country Planning was established for England and Wales. The problems were so diverse, their solutions so interconnected, that the wartime Government took action to create statute, institution and system to make post-war Scotland a planned community. The Act 1909 laid down that a town planning scheme might be made in respect of any land which was being, or seemed likely to be, developed, with the object of securing proper sanitary conditions, amenity and convenience. The need to secure physical planning brought the question of land prices and betterment to the fore. Since 1925 there has been separate planning legislation, apart from minor provisions and amendments and the New Towns Act 1946. The Clyde Valley Regional Planning Advisory Committee, composed of the local planning authorities in Lanarkshire, Dunbartonshire and Renfrewshire, had been set up in 1927 'to prepare a scheme dealing with the particular features of planning within the area'.
