ABSTRACT
Few measures of similar importance, at the time they were passed, have probably received so little attention from some of those most affected by them, as was true of the Town and Country Planning Act, 1947. Even now, some nine months after the Act has come into force, few people are aware of its full significance for the economic future of this country. The public can hardly be blamed for not at once appreciating the wider bearing of that measure. The Act applies to a wide field a special theory which has been developed within a narrow circle of town planners with a limited object in view; but the general significance of that theory has never been systematically examined. The monopoly of the Land Board will be even more complete than that of such a single owner of all the land surrounding an existing plant.
