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Dame Evelyn Sharp, who was at that time Permanent Secretary of the Ministry of Housing and Local Government, persuaded the citizens of Teesside to carry out this transportation plan. The plan is summarised as follows: 

• The future planning and development of Teesside was given significance by its character as one of the main industrial centres of Britain, set close to beautiful countryside but with much of its urban fabric decayed. It was then still a group of towns but this was to change after the creation of the new Teesside County Borough on 1st April 1968. 
• The Consultants in Teesside Survey & Plan were commissioned and started work on a three year programme in 1965. 
• The aims that have governed the preparation of the survey and plan have been: (i) to give a wide freedom of choice of where to live, where to work and how to travel; and of where and how to enjoy leisure; (ii) to establish satisfactory social, physical and economic conditions throughout Teesside; (iii) to set out clearly proposals to achieve these aims at the levels of urban structure and local planning in the spirit of the new legislation for town and country planning then before Parliament. 
• Arising from these aims, the method of work relied heavily on a thorough survey and analysis of Teesside and a pragmatic testing of the alternative opportunities for its future urban structure.