Catalogue description Department of the Environment: Housing Development Division, later Directorate: Registered Files (HDD Series)

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Reference: AT 54
Title: Department of the Environment: Housing Development Division, later Directorate: Registered Files (HDD Series)
Description:

This series contain registered files of the Housing Development Division, later Directorate.

The files relate to research and development of building techniques, including liaison at national and international levels, and major and innovative areas of development. Some concern specific housing schemes. The series also includes records of the inquiry into the collapse of flats at Canning Town (the Ronan Point disaster) on 16 May 1968.

The HDD series contains some earlier files which were re-registered from the H1, H3, H4, H5 (HLG 117 and HLG 118), C2 (HLG 140), PC2 (HLG 142), P5 and P9 (HLG 131) series; consequently some files in this HDD series date from the early 1960s. Some HDD files were later re-registered into the SRD series.
Date: 1954-1990
Related material:

For records of the Committee of Inquiry into the Circumstances Affecting the Collapse of Flats in Canning Town, see HLG 157
Held by: The National Archives, Kew
Former reference in its original department: HDD file series
Legal status: Public Record(s)
Language: English
Creator:

Department of the Environment, Housing Development Directorate, 1972-1981

Department of the Environment, Housing Development Division, 1971-1972
Physical description: 201 file(s)
Access conditions: Open
Immediate source of acquisition:

From 1995 Department of the Environment
Selection and destruction information: Files relating to matters of local interest, such as the formation of local housing groups, and correspondence with local authorities have not been preserved.
Accruals: Series is accruing
Administrative / biographical background:

The Housing Development Division was set up in 1971, and took over from branches H1 and H4 of the Housing Division such developmental issues as energy conservation, the design of dwellings, and housing projects such as accommodation for single and elderly persons. In addition the division liaised with local, national and international bodies on housing development matters.

In 1972 the division assumed the title of directorate. It came to be responsible for a range of development issues such as the the housing needs of special groups, the provision of advice on the standards and layout of housing and for developing technical aspects of housing construction.

In 1981 the Housing Development Directorate was disbanded and its responsibilities distributed among various branches of Housing B Division.

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