Putting the final plan together would be achieved in a matter of weeks because of the enormous amount of graphics produced by Mike Murray and his team and the availability of both this material and text from the reports. The team had worked day and night for over a year, sacrificing many weekends in the process as had all the team. Because of the nature of their work Mike's group were inevitably at the end of the production line. This usually meant spending anything from two to four days with little or no sleep printing reports to ensure that the Steering Committee's efforts remained focused. Mike told me later that he was never nearer a divorce from his wife Lynn than during this period even though she worked in the office and understood that architects and planners often worked en charrette through the night. Alan Bradshaw and Jim Foster were also near the limits of their endurance, but no one complained and the excitement of finally producing a plan and the opportunity to make it public at last kept the momentum going over these final weeks.

I worked with Jim Foster and Mike Murray's team to organise a draft of the final plan, which was to be presented to the Steering Committee at their meeting on 25 January 1968.