Research There are places where knowledge is brought together and research skills are developed. These places may be businesses which SPECIALISE around their particular commercial interest, or universities and other such agencies which divide their organisations into SPECIALIST faculties and departments. There is a serious gap between these specialising groups and the real-life situation in a community where on a particular farrn or business, up to 6-8 different specialist bodies of knowledge have to be brought together to create a whole, working, economically viable system. To date it has been up to individual owners and managers to work out their own needs and to get whatever information is available. We can no longer afford this slow and haphazard approach. The Gloucester Project acts as the co-ordinator between the community and its various parts on one hand, and the range of separate services of knowledge and research skill on the other. The Co-ordinating Unit will help bring the specialists together with the property owner and will work out a procedure for getting all the specialist inputs to work together. The aim is to produce an economically satisfactory outcome for the changes which the owner requires.