Rural Planning in the United Kingdom

Abstract

R URAL planning in the United Kingdom1 falls into three main heads: (I) economic planning to ensure stability and efficiency in farming; (II) amenity and land use planning, to ensure that our very limited land resources are used to the best advantage of the nation and to prevent scenic spoliation of the countryside; (III) rural welfare planning to raise the standard of living of farm families, particularly of agricultural wage earners, and generally to secure for the countryman the same social privileges as the towns-