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RECOMMENDATION 472 (1966)[1]
on co-operation on town and country planning within the
Council of Europe
The Assembly,
1. Recalling
its Resolution 210, adopted on 26th September 1961, which
initiated its first study of town and country planning,
stating it to be one of the essential political tasks facing
the European institutions at the present
time[1];
2.
Recalling
its Resolution 289 which established
the Joint
Working Party on
Regional Planning;
3.
Congratulating
the European Conference of Local Authorities for having
given prominence to the
basic aspects of town and
country planning and having thus brought the Council of Europe
to take up the question;
4.
Having
regard to the interim report
prepared by the
Joint Working Party
on Regional Planning presented with the agreement of the
Bureau of the Assembly;
5.
Observing
that the
increasingly rapid development of
"industrial society" confronts all countries with new problems
of land use which can be solved rationally only in the context
of town and country planning;
6.
Observing
that this new
responsibility falls on the public authorities at all
levels of the administration - local, regional, national and
ineluctably European;
7.
Observing
that the interdepartmental nature of town and country planning
necessitates the establishment at all levels of bodies to
co-ordinate the activity of the various departments and
services concerned;
8.
Observing
that co-operative action
to date, at both governmental and non-governmental level, is
not adequate to answer the real needs for European
co-operation in this field;
9.
Pending
consideration of a
final report to be
entitled "Town and Country
Planning - a European problem", containing specific
proposals for implementing a programme
of European
co-operation in this matter,
Recommends the
Committee of
Ministers:
10. to
note the Assembly's
proposal, now under consideration, for the
creation of a European Conference of Ministers responsible for
town and country planning, secretarial services
for which could be provided by the Council of
Europe;
11. to bring
this project to the notice of the bodies whose task it is to
study developments in the
local authorities field,
by transmitting this report to the ad hoc
committee of experts instructed to give an opinion on this
question;
12. to co-ordinate Council of Europe activities connected with
town and country planning by taking the following measures:
(a) by grouping
these activities
together in a chapter in the Programme of
Intergovernmental Work;
(b) by authorising
the Secretary
General to convene a co-ordinating group of representatives
of the various
bodies now concerned with these activities,
especially:
(i) in the intergovernmental
sector:
- the European Committee
for the Conservation of
Nature and National
Resources,
- the Social
Committee (Sub-Committee
on the Social
Aspects of Regional Development Policy),
- the Council for Cultural Co-operation
(Committee for Out-of-School Education and the Cultural
Rapporteur),
- the Committee of Experts
on Air Pollution,
- the Special
Representative for
National Refugees and
Over-Population;
(ii) European Conference of
Local Authorities
(Working Party on Regional Planning and Development);
(iii) Consultative Assembly
(Joint Working Party
on Regional Planning);
(c) by providing
for the financial
measures required to allow this co-ordinating group
to hold two
meetings every year.
[1]. Assembly Debate on 30th September
1966 (16th Sitting) (see Doc. 2111 rev., report of the Joint
Working Party on Regional Planning).
Text adopted by the Assembly on 30th
September 1966 ) (16th Sitting).
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