Catalogue description Department of the Environment: Planning Urban Policy Directorate: Registered Files (PUP) Series.

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Reference: AT 80
Title: Department of the Environment: Planning Urban Policy Directorate: Registered Files (PUP) Series.
Description:

The files record the development of a 'total approach' to urban planning through six town studies (Birmingham, Lambeth, Liverpool, Oldham, Rotherham and Sunderland). Particular focus is given to out-of town shopping centres, the siting of aerial masts and city walkways.
Date: 1950-1980
Arrangement:

The files will be presented in former reference order thereby reflecting their original administrative structure.
Related material:

Planning Land Use Policy Directorate files are in AT 29

Planning Development Plan System Directorate files AT 35
Held by: The National Archives, Kew
Former reference in its original department: PUP
Legal status: Public Record(s)
Language: English
Creator:

Department of the Environment, Planning Urban Policy Directorate, 1971-1974
Physical description: 99 file(s)
Access conditions: Open
Immediate source of acquisition:

From 2002 Department for Transport, Local Government and the Regions
Custodial history: Since the records ceased to accumulate they have been with the Department of the Environment (until 1997), the Department of the Environment, Transport and the Regions (1997-2001) and the Department for Transport, Local Government and the Regions (2001 to present).
Selection and destruction information: The records were selected on the basis that they reflect the impact of the state on the physical environment (2.2.2.2 of PRO's acquisition policy).
Accruals: Series is accruing
Administrative / biographical background:

The Planning, Urban Policy Directorate was set up in 1971 when the planning directorates were reorganised within the Department of the Environment. It was replaced in 1974 by the Urban Affairs and Commercial Property Directorate.

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