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- ↑ "CAP Members". cap-website. Retrieved 26 November 2020.
- ↑ Commonwealth Association of Planners Website
C.Hague 2009 "Viewpoint: Planning in the Commonwealth" Town Planning Review 80(2) downloadable from www.commonwealth-planners.org/papers/hague.pdf
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