§ Chairman
- W. L. Mather, O.B.E., M.C., T.D., Chairman Mather and Platt Ltd., Chairman, Civic Trust for the North West.
§ Vice-Chairman
- Sir Leonard Cooke, O.B.E., J.P., Former President, Co-operative Wholesale Society.
§ Members
- E. G. W. Allen, O.B.E., E.R.D., Director, Lancashire and Merseyside Industrial Development Association.
- R. A. Barnett, J.P., Divisional Officer, Union of Shop, Distributive and Allied Workers: Secretary T.U.C. North Western Advisory Committee.
- Professor A. Beacham, O.B.E., The Edward Gonner Professor of Applied Economics, Liverpool University.
- J. K. Boynton, M.C., Clerk of Cheshire County Council.
- U. A. Coates, C.B.E., Lancashire County Council, County Planning Officer.
- R. Cullen, Chairman, Calico Printers Association Ltd., Manchester.
- J. F. Eccles, Lancashire District Secretary of the National Union of General and Municipal Workers.
- D. G. Farrar, Regional Secretary, Transport and General Workers' Union.
- Alderman R. Foulkes, O.B.E., J.P., Alderman, Lancashire County Council.
- J. Goldberg, Chairman, Manchester and Salford Council of Social Service.
- Councillor J. Golding, J.P., Councillor, Crewe Borough Council.
- Professor R. H. Kantorowich, Professor of Town and Country Planning, Manchester University.
- J. King, Secretary, National Association of Card, Blowing and Ring Room Operatives.
- M. Kinsella, J.P., Member, Executive Council of Society of Graphical and Allied Trades.
- Councillor D. J. Moore, J.P., Member, Glossop Borough Council.
- Councillor R. B. Prain, Member, Manchester City Council.
- L. Redshaw, Chief Executive, Vickers Ltd., Barrow-in-Furness.
- R. F. Richardson, M.B.E. Chairman, North Western Electricity Board.
- Alderman R. C. Rodgers, M.B.E., J.P., Alderman, Manchester City Council.
- Alderman W. H. Sefton, Alderman, Liverpool City Council.
- Miss Anne Shaw, C.B.E., Chairman and Managing Director The Anne Shaw Organisation Ltd., Alderley Edge.
- Mrs. D. Slack, Lecturer in Management Sciences and Adult Education; Lecturer in Economics, University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology.
- Alderman H. McDonald Stewart, J.P., Member, Liverpool City Council.
- Sir Donald Stokes, T.D., Managing Director and Deputy Chairman, British Leyland Motor Corporation Ltd.
- Councillor T. Taylor, Member, Blackburn County Borough Council.
- J. Lewis Womersley, C.B.E., Architect.
- Some further names will be added at a later date.