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Abstract
Recent Government decisions and Opposition statements have called into question the future of the governing institutions of the English regions. This raises two questions, the first of which is the strategic role of European regions and the need for it in EU member states. This question is addressed first through a discussion of the English regional government agencies' strategic planning roles and the development of similar regional strategic planning in other European Union member states. The second main issue is possible scenarios for the development of the English regions. These include further attempts to create elected regional assemblies, developing administrative regionalism, revising regional boundaries, developing city regions and abolishing most or all of the regional government institutions. The provisional conclusion is that such abolition would be a retrograde step that would reduce England's capacity to cope with domestic and European pressures.
Notes
1. In the late nineteenth century a number of politicians, for example Joseph Chamberlain and civil servants, such as Edwin Chadwick, became increasingly concerned about the squalid and unsanitary conditions suffered by factory workers in the new industrial cities and sought to improve conditions therein.
2. RA and LGA web sites.
3. Campaign for the English Regions, Press release, July 2007.