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Ministry of Land and Natural Resources: Natural Resources Planning Unit: Registered...

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Reference JH 7
Title Ministry of Land and Natural Resources: Natural Resources Planning Unit: Registered Files (KW Series)
Date 1964-1967
Description

The files relate to water supply, reservoirs, barrage schemes including the Thames Barrier, inland waterways, ministerial responsibility for water, and the question of public ownership of water. Some files were re-registered to the KW series from the KG series: JH 5

Arrangement

Arranged alpha-numerically in former reference order by transfer.

Related material

WS series files relating to water can be found in HLG 127

Held by The National Archives, Kew
Former reference in its original department KW series
Legal status Public Record(s)
Language

English

Creator

Ministry of Housing and Local Government, Water Services Division, 1967-1970

Ministry of Land and Natural Resources, Natural Resources Planning Unit, 1965-1967

Physical description 21 files and flat sheets
Access conditions Subject to 30 year closure
Immediate source of acquisition

From 1998 Department of the Environment, Transport and the Regions

Accruals Series is accruing
Administrative/ biographical background

The Natural Resources Planning Unit of the Ministry of Land and Natural Resources was created in 1965. Certain functions relating to water were transferred from the Ministry of Housing and Local Government to the Minister of Land and Natural Resources. The Minister was brought in to share duties in relation to national water policy imposed by the Water Resources Act 1963, and thereafter became responsible for the Water Resources Board and related functions. With the demise of the Ministry in 1967, responsibility for water reverted to the Water Services Division of the Ministry of Housing and Local Government.