ABSTRACT
In 1978, the British Government, in the guise of its publicity agency the Central Office of Information (1978) argued that Environmental Planning in Britain included: land use planning, the development of new towns, policies for inner cities, housing and urban transport policy, the conservation of the countryside, the preservation of historic buildings, the protection of green belts and trees, land reclamation, and the control of pollution. In contrast, a wider and more academic review in 1983 (O'Riordan and Turner, 1983) provided a rather different list which included: environmental economics, planning and environmental protection, economics and ecology, growth and resource depletion, and environmental pollution control. It is the purpose of this chapter to analyse which of these lists most closely reflects the picture of environmental policies in the UK in the 1980s. We begin by exploring how these policies evolved up to 1960.
