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Commission ended, Senior returned to the field of planning. An essay he contributed to "London Under Stress" in 1970 called for more families to be resettled outside London to improve life inside; he wanted this move planned by an authority covering an area larger than
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The main basis of Senior's dissent was his belief in retaining two tiers of local government. He proposed to create 35 city regions as the upper tier, with 148 directly elected district councils below them. He also advocated indirectly elected regional councils. Observers noted that the boundaries
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in May 1966. The proceedings of the Royal
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Senior continued to support regional government, speaking in favour at a meeting of Labour members of the
Association of District Councils in June 1976, and arguing that October that
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correspondent, he began to specialise in planning matters, where he built up a reputation as a distinguished specialist journalist. Senior studied the disputes between
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Scotland risked being defeated by an English backlash unless there was a firm commitment to devolution to the English regions. In 1980 he opposed the choice of
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Senior was born 4 May 1912 to Sally
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236:', Who Was Who, A & C Black, 1920–2008; online edn, Oxford University Press, Dec 2007, accessed 26 May 2009.
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