Altered Plans One general tendency, that began to cause nervousness
in many places, emerges from this example. Regional planning extends. We go to one county town end see maps and plans on which this and that bit of country is zoned or scheduled for distinctive purposes. It has happened lately that local councils have changed their minds and their interpretation of the regional plan. It is obvious that if• such plans are not firmly fixed, but are- open to alteration at the caprice of the councils, they are worthless. Such .a sudden change of plan has been threatened in a historic town about which Mr. Williams Ellis composed one of his forcible and facetious " Cautionary Guides." May Hill in Gloucestershire has not, I think, been included as sacrosanct in any regional plan, but in an admirable Survey designed to guide a future compulsory Regional Plan, the district has been rightly-scheduled to the general approval, as a " landscape reservation." It will be treated rather as a scapegoat if the £3,000 is not forthcoming before the last day of June. I hear that already two donation's of £100 each have been promised. May they prove breeders, as weather prophets say !
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