ABSTRACT
As a result of the changes made in the last six years, Britain now has a more developed and far-reaching regional policy than ever before. From its humble and ineffectual beginnings in the 1930s, regional policy has grown to embrace controls on development, capital incentives, the regional employment premium, industrial estates, public investment and regional planning. This conclusion presents some closing thoughts on the concepts discussed in this book. The book shows that the development of policy was not continuous, nor was policy pursued with equal determination throughout the thirty-five years or so since it was started. Only in two short periods, 1945–48 and in the 1960s, was regional policy given really high priority. The book also shows that the problem regions had done much better in the 1960s than they did in the second half of the 1950s. Controls, such as the Industrial Development Certificate or the Office Development Permit, are a unique feature of British regional policy.
