Randstad Holland — I

Abstract

In 1950 the then Minister for Reconstruction and Housing instructed the Permanent Commission of the National Planning Service (Vaste Commissie van de Rijksdienst voor het Nationale Plan) to set up a Committee for the Western Region (Werkcommissie Westen des Lands) with the terms of reference: firstly, to conduct a comprehensive survey of the problems arising from present and anticipated development in the western part of the country from the viewpoint of national physical planning; secondly, to propose measures that ought to be taken, giving priority to (a) the environs of IJmond, and (b) the agglomeration of The Hague; and thirdly, to devise a form of co-operation in planning research between the Permanent Commission and the provincial councils of North Holland, South Holland and Utrecht, and the city councils of Amsterdam, Rotterdam and The Hague.