ABSTRACT
This chapter summarizes the most significant conclusions and recommendations of the report as a whole. Local authorities will continue to be large users of the building industry in the foreseeable future. The most acute period of housing shortage has passed, but local authorities have large housing programmes before them, particularly for slum clearance. School building is still running at a high level; the replacement of the older schools has hardly begun and is much needed. The change in emphasis from two-storey housing on virgin land to large programmes of slum clearance, and the higher proportion of more specialized types of building will change the balance of local authority building activity. Local authority committee organization is very diverse. All local authorities must face from time to time the problem of when to keep several functions under one chief officer and when to sub-divide departments.
