Catalogue description Ministry of Transport and successors, Urban and Regional Professional 'B' Division (Planning): Registered Files

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Reference: MT 107
Title: Ministry of Transport and successors, Urban and Regional Professional 'B' Division (Planning): Registered Files
Description:

This series contains the registered files of the Urban and Regional Professional 'B' Division and its predecessor, the Transport Planning Urban Division of the Ministry of Transport and the Department of the Environment.

Most of the files concern the implications for highways policy of planning applications and development plans and many relate to specific areas. There are also some files relating to urban traffic and traffic control, the role of transport in urban planning, grants to highways authorities and the control of advertisements on trunk roads.

This series includes files formerly registered under HPA, TPU, HL, HLL and UPC. Files bearing the TPW prefix which are included in this series are those files which were not re-registered under their subsequent prefix, WRPB.

Date: 1931-1987
Related material:

Records of the Highways A Division can be found in MT 110

Separated material:

Some files from this series have been re-registered in the PTA series in MT 147

Held by: The National Archives, Kew
Former reference in its original department: URPB and TPU Series
Legal status: Public Record(s)
Language: English
Creator:

Department of the Environment, Passenger and Urban Transport Planning Group, Urban and Regional Professional B Division, 1970-1973

Department of the Environment, Traffic and Transport Planning Division, 1971-1975

Ministry of Transport and Civil Aviation, Highways Administration Group, 1953-1959

Ministry of Transport, Highways Administration Group, 1951-1953

Ministry of Transport, Highways Divisions, 1937-1941

Ministry of Transport, Highways Divisions, 1946-1953

Ministry of Transport, Highways Lands and Development Division, 1959-1966

Ministry of Transport, Passenger and Urban Transport Planning Group, Traffic and Transport Planning B Division, 1968-1968

Ministry of Transport, Passenger and Urban Transport Planning Group, Urban and Regional Professional B Division, 1968-1970

Ministry of Transport, Roads Department, 1919-1937

Ministry of Transport, Transport Planning Urban Division, 1967-1968

Ministry of Transport, Urban Traffic Policy Division, 1966-1968

Ministry of War Transport, Highways Divisions, 1941-1946

Physical description: 404 file(s)
Access conditions: Open
Immediate source of acquisition:

From 1982 Department of Transport

Accruals: Series is accruing
Administrative / biographical background:

The Urban and Regional Professional 'B' Division (URPB) was created as part of the Passenger and Urban Transport Planning Group set up at the end of 1968. It replaced the short-lived Traffic and Transport Planning B Division (TTPB) which had responsibility for development plans and development control and, like TTPB, URPB was a wholly integrated division of engineering and administrative staffs. Before 1969 subject to organizational changes, this work has been carried out by the Urban Planning and Classified Roads Policy Division (UPC), Transport Planning Urban Division (TPU) and to a lesser extent, Highways Lands and Development Division (HL). URPB continued until the reorganisation of all planning divisions within the Department of the Environment in 1973.

The division was concerned mainly with the evaluation of development plans drawn up under the Town and Country Planning Acts, especially the engineering aspects and budgetary implications. It worked in liaison with the Ministry of Housing and Local Government on this and other planning matters such as new towns and national parks where there was a highway interest. It was responsible for policy in making 'planning blight' grants to highway authorities towards the cost of acquisition of land, as well as carrying out transportation studies and classification of roads.

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