THE REGIONAL SURVEY.
Every social reformer should inwardly digest the essential principle to be observed for the future in the conservation of Britain. It will in all probability be adopted by Government and by local authorities. The policy, precisely stated and emphatically expressed at this conference and accepted by statesmen, is of first-rate importance ; and the duty of carrying it into execution is urgent. The country can be saved only by the adoption of broad schemes of regional planning, in which areas and belts, hills and valleys, woods and plains, road-sides and open spaces, shall be scheduled as agricultural, not to be built upon or as suitable for buildings of such or such a density or character. Such regional plans have been adopted here and there ; and the lead will quite certainly be followed in most counties.
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