Catalogue description Ministry of Health and successors: Housing Department, later Division: Housing Proposals and Schemes, Registered Files

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Reference: HLG 49
Title: Ministry of Health and successors: Housing Department, later Division: Housing Proposals and Schemes, Registered Files
Description:

General and local authority files of the Local Government Board, the Ministry of Health, the Ministry of Housing and Local Government and the Department of the Environment relating to measures taken by Parliament, local authorities, housing associations and other bodies for the planned development of housing programmes and schemes. Papers relate to proposals and plans for housing and town development, acquisition of land, loan sanctions, district valuers' and surveyors' reports etc.

The series includes files from the 92,000 series (HLG 101).
Date: 1905-1971
Related material:

For related registers of sealed documents of the Welsh Board of Health, see BD 35
Held by: The National Archives, Kew
Legal status: Public Record(s)
Language: English
Creator:

Ministry of Health, Housing Department, 1919-1951

Ministry of Housing and Local Government, Housing Division, 1951-1964

Ministry of Housing and Local Government, Housing Division A, 1964-1970

Ministry of Housing and Local Government, Housing Division B, 1964-1970
Physical description: 1520 file(s)
Access conditions: Subject to 30 year closure unless otherwise stated
Administrative / biographical background:

With the passing of the Housing, Town Planning etc. Act 1919, housing became a statutory duty for all local authorities in England and Wales, who were required to submit to the minister detailed surveys of housing conditions and needs in their districts and to forward outline proposals for housing and town development.

Various Acts were passed between 1919 and 1938 to encourage local authorities in their housing programmes and to secure that the operations of the private developer harmonised with the public needs.

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