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THE danger of the regional plans for the Clyde Valley, the Forth and Tweed and Eastern Scotland being shelved through lack of public discussion of them was stressed by Mr John A Mack, Stevenson Lecturer on Citizenship, at Glasgow University, yesterday. Mr Mack was speaking on 'Planning and Human Nature'. He said that Scotland's two major problems – the overcrowding of population and industry in the Clyde Valley and the rapid decay of the land and the people in the remote country areas – were well surveyed in the Abercrombie plan for the Clyde Valley, the Mears plan for the Forth and the Tweed and Mr Gordon Payne's forthcoming work on Eastern Scotland. These might well turn out to be landmarks in the revival of Scotland, but there was the acute danger that they might be put on the shelf. One obstacle was the system of local government and the inability of local authorities and planners to lift themselves clear of the immediate difficulties of finance and housing which almost overwhelmed them.
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