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In 1937, the government had created a royal commission, headed by Anderson Montague-Barlow, to assess the distribution of the working population, explore the future trends and the disadvantages of having areas of densely concentrated industry, and to propose solutions to the problems it found.^[1] The commission relied heavily on papers written by Donald MacDougall, with one of the papers even included as an appendix to the final report; these papers are now seen to contain several important flaws, resulting in post-war industrial policy which ignored the relationship between regions and industry in the overall national spatial economy.^[2]

The final report from the commission found that population was increasing in London and the Home Counties but stagnant or decreasing elsewhere, and recommended that industry and investment be refocused to other areas.^[3] It also recommended the creation of a national planning authority; this was implemented by the Minister of Town and Country Planning Act 1943 which established the Ministry of Town and Country Planning.^[4]^: 1

This drive for decentralisation was key for the development of the New Towns programme.^[5]

References

^ "Royal Commission on the Distribution of the Industrial Population (Barlow Commission): Minutes and Papers". The National Archives. Retrieved 19 July 2022.
^ Jeanette Earl (12 September 2018). "Regional Policy in Britain: from Barlow to Brexit". Canterbury Christ Church University. Retrieved 19 July 2022.
^ Mark Clapson (2013). "Destruction and Dispersal: The Blitz and the 'Break-Up' of Working-Class London". In Clapson, Mark; Larkham, Peter (eds.). The Blitz and its Legacy: Wartime Destruction to Post-War Reconstruction. Farnham: Ashgate Publishing. pp. 99–112.
^ "THE ADMINISTRATION OF THE ENGLISH NEW TOWNS PROGRAM". Washington University Law Quarterly. Retrieved 23 July 2022.
^ Nick Gallent; Steve Robinson (2012). "Ashford and its strategic planning context". Neighbourhood planning: Communities, networks and governance. Oxford University Press. ISBN 9781447300069. There has been an ebb and flow of interest in strategic regional planning in the UK, with the strategic perspective and control at the regional level enjoying notably greater support under some governments than others. Planning at this level has its origins in the 1940 Barlow Report, which gave rise to the post-war New Towns programme and broader attempts to redistribute industry and decant people away from inner-urban locations.

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[1] "Royal Commission on the Distribution of the Industrial Population (Barlow Commission): Minutes and Papers". The National Archives. Retrieved 19 July 2022.

[2] Jeanette Earl (12 September 2018). "Regional Policy in Britain: from Barlow to Brexit". Canterbury Christ Church University. Retrieved 19 July 2022.

[3] Mark Clapson (2013). "Destruction and Dispersal: The Blitz and the 'Break-Up' of Working-Class London". In Clapson, Mark; Larkham, Peter (eds.). The Blitz and its Legacy: Wartime Destruction to Post-War Reconstruction. Farnham: Ashgate Publishing. pp. 99–112.

[4] "THE ADMINISTRATION OF THE ENGLISH NEW TOWNS PROGRAM". Washington University Law Quarterly. Retrieved 23 July 2022.

[5] Nick Gallent; Steve Robinson (2012). "Ashford and its strategic planning context". Neighbourhood planning: Communities, networks and governance. Oxford University Press. ISBN 9781447300069. There has been an ebb and flow of interest in strategic regional planning in the UK, with the strategic perspective and control at the regional level enjoying notably greater support under some governments than others. Planning at this level has its origins in the 1940 Barlow Report, which gave rise to the post-war New Towns programme and broader attempts to redistribute industry and decant people away from inner-urban locations.

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