ABSTRACT
The terms of reference of the Regional Councils were set quite wide, requiring them to consider broad strategies for regional development and the best use of regional resources. The venues of meetings are planned as far in advance as possible so that arrangements can be made to hold a reasonable number of Council meetings at different regional centres. It was thus essential that the Councils should be free to organize themselves and their work to suit their own particular circumstances and to meet the regional problems which individually they find most pressing. After completion of the regional strategy it was necessary to reconsider the organization of the Council in the light of the new phase of work into which it was entering. Study Groups and sub-committees are by no means the only sources of information on which the Council bases its decisions regarding the regional strategy and its advice to Ministers.
