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Ministry of Town and Country Planning and predecessors and successors: Planning Policy...

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Reference HLG 71
Title Ministry of Town and Country Planning and predecessors and successors: Planning Policy and Statutory Planning Functions, Registered Files
Date 1932-1980
Description

General files of correspondence of the Ministry of Works and Planning, the Ministry of Town and Country Planning and their successors relating to planning policy and statutory planning junctions, including appeals. Some files dealing with broad questions of reconstruction and planning policy originated in the Ministry of Works and Buildings: others relating to statutory planning functions were initiated in the Ministry of Health. Some files relate to planning research, development plans, finance and planning in Greater London,including mineral workings.The series includes minutes of the Planning Board of the Ministry of Works and Buildings.

Related material

Some related files are in HLG 104 HLG 119

Related local authority files are found in: This series includes material relating to Wales but see also:

Earlier Ministry of Health general planning correspondence will be found in HLG 52 HLG 79

Earlier local authority files will be found in HLG 4 BD 28

For other related files see HLG 129 BD 29

Separated material

Some files from this series were re-registered into Department of the Environment series: see

AT 37

Held by The National Archives, Kew
Former reference in its original department 10,000, 15,000, 20,000, 30,000, 40,000 and 90,000 file series.
Legal status Public Record(s)
Language

English

Physical description 2526 files and volumes
Access conditions Subject to 30 year closure unless otherwise stated
Unpublished finding aids

Subject Index and Key to file numbers with series list