ABSTRACT
This conclusion presents some closing thoughts on the concepts discussed in the preceding chapters of this book. The book explains the new agenda of sustainability appears to coexist uneasily with extant economic, social and physical planning agendas, creating potential conflicts, and new dualisms. The academic ideas factory level of planning schools, that much greater research is given to investigating the interrelationships and potential conflicts between and among the different types of planning, that is a stock taking should take place to see exactly what this monster called 'British town planning' comprises. There is a need to consider 'what we want, that is to develop strategic policy objectives. The legal structure of town planning needs to be overhauled in particular the tradition of basing planning regulations upon principles of 'sorting' of land uses and development, by means of legislation which is obsessed with separation, 'order', segregation, categorisation, and thus zoning, needs to be expunged.
