The implementation of strategic land use policy: Lessons from the Lyon conurbation

article looks at the new arrangements for strategic land use planning polic y in the English regions and the questions that these arrangements raise fo r the successful implementation of policy. It then turns to the case of Lyo n, France, which has had a rather longer history of strategic plan-making b oth at regional level and in the conurbation. It concludes that scale of op eration, administrative arrangements and political influence all have had a major bearing on both the formulation of policy and its likely success in practice.