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Department of the Environment: Planning, Regional and Minerals Directorate: Registered...
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| Reference | AT 48 |
|---|---|
| Title | Department of the Environment: Planning, Regional and Minerals Directorate: Registered Files (PRM Series) |
| Date | 1944-1978 |
| Description | This series contains registered files of the Planning, Regional and Minerals Directorate. The files relate to the payment of grants for the rehabilitation of derelict land and derelict land policy, and also include some papers on the Aberfan tip disaster of 1966. The series includes some earlier files which were re-registered into the PRM file series from the Ministry of Housing and Local Government file series P16 (HLG 131), PC4 (HLG 142), and M: HLG 89 |
| Arrangement | The files in this series have been transferred in more than one batch. They are arranged in previous reference order within each accession. |
| Separated material |
For files re-registered into the DPRP series, see |
| Held by | The National Archives, Kew |
| Former reference in its original department | PRM file series |
| Legal status | Public Record(s) |
| Language |
English |
| Creator |
Department of the Environment, Planning, Regional and Minerals Directorate, 1974-1977 |
| Physical description | 77 file(s) |
| Access conditions | Open |
| Immediate source of acquisition |
From 1996 Department of the Environment |
| Accruals | Series is accruing |
| Administrative/ biographical background | The Planning, Regional and Minerals Directorate was established in 1974, the result of a merger of the Planning, Regional Development Directorate and the Planning, Minerals and Countryside Directorate. Prior to 1951, these responsibilities were probably exercised by a Planning Division in the Ministry of Town and Country Planning. From 1951 until approximately 1967 these functions were carried out by Minerals Division; from around 1967 to 1969 by the Countryside Division in the Ministry of Housing and Local Government; and then from about 1969 to 1971 by Planning Division C which became part of the newly created Department of the Environment in 1970. It is unclear which division had responsibility between 1972 and 1974 but it is possible that it was the Planning, Minerals and Countryside Division. The newly formed directorate was responsible for regional economic policy, policy and legislation on minerals for both constructional and non-constructional use, and the reclamation of derelict land. In 1977 the directorate's responsibilities were split between the newly created Development Plans and Regional Policy Directorate and New Towns and Minerals Planning Directorate. |
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