Catalogue description Ministry of Housing and Local Government: Hatfield Gale Inquiry Transcript

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Reference: HLG 163
Title: Ministry of Housing and Local Government: Hatfield Gale Inquiry Transcript
Description:

This series contains the transcript of the Hatfield Gale inquiry, made at the time.

Date: 1958
Related material:

Building Research Station records, including a copy of the published report, are in DSIR 4
Held by: The National Archives, Kew
Legal status: Public Record(s)
Language: English
Creator:

Ministry of Housing and Local Government, Hatfield Gale Inquiry, 1958-1958
Physical description: 10 file(s)
Access conditions: Open
Immediate source of acquisition:

in 2010 Department for Communities and Local Government
Custodial history: Ministry of Housing and Local Government 1958-1970; Department of the Environment 1970-1997; Department of the Environment, Transport and the Regions 1997-2001; Department of Transport, Local Government and the Regions 2001- 2002; Office of the Deputy Prime Minister 2002-2006; Department for Communities and Local Government 2006 on.
Selection and destruction information: The complete set of hearings transcripts has been preserved.
Accruals: Not accruing.
Administrative / biographical background:

The Hatfield Gale inquiry was held for ten days between 18 March 1958 and 23 May 1958 at Cavendish Hall, Roe Green Centre, Bishops Rise, Hatfield, Hertfordshire, under the chairmanship of Mr Michael Rowe, CBE, QC.

The purpose of the inquiry was to investigate the causes of damage to houses during a storm early on the morning of 4 November 1957.

Represented were the Hatfield Development Corporation, Hatfield Rural District, the architects, the contractors, the Aluminium Development Company and the Hatfield Residents Association.

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