ABSTRACT
Contributors to this book have found many faults with the principles and practice of strategic planning for regional development in the UK. If we hold up the practice of regional planning against the more theoretical coverage of strategic planning outlined in Chapters 4, 5 and 6 we see that there have been numerous failures: for example, of short-term reactive planning, trend planning, the lack of integration of planned actions, conflicting objectives and policies and weak implementation. These failings are confirmed by the chapters which look at the recent UK history of regional planning, at planning for sectors such as housing and transport and at case studies.
