Catalogue description Department of the Environment and successors: Airports Policy Division: Registered Files (APD series)

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Reference: AT 94
Title: Department of the Environment and successors: Airports Policy Division: Registered Files (APD series)
Description:

The selected files detail planning policy relating to airports. They include records of the public inquiry into a fourth terminal at Heathrow Airport.
Date: 1946-2001
Held by: The National Archives, Kew
Former reference in its original department: APD
Legal status: Public Record(s)
Language: English
Creator:

Department of the Environment, 1970-1997

Department of the Environment, Airports Policy Division, 1974-1977

Department of the Environment, Transport and the Regions, 1997-2001

Department of Transport, Local Government and the Regions, 2001-2002

Departments of the Environment and Transport - Regional Offices, South-East, 1977-1980
Physical description: 179 file(s)
Access conditions: Open
Immediate source of acquisition:

From 2005 Office of the Deputy Prime Minister
Custodial history: Since the file series ceased to accumulate the records have been in the custody of the Department of the Environment (1981-1997), the Department of Environment, Transport and the Regions (1997-2001), the Department of Transport, Local Government and the Regions (2001-2002) and the Office of the Deputy Prime Minister (2002 to date).
Accumulation dates: The APD series ran 1974-1980.
Selection and destruction information: These files have been selected for permanent preservation as they reflect the economic, social and demographic condition of the UK as documented by the state's dealings with individuals, communities and organisations outside its own formal boundaries (2.2.2.1 of PRO's Acquisition Policy).
Accruals: The series will accrue.
Administrative / biographical background:

The Airports Policy Division was established in 1974 as part of the Department of the Environment's South-East Region Planning Department. By 1977 references in the Civil Service Year Book to this division cease, however, 'Airports' is a function allocated to the Chief Planning Officer in the Departments of the Environment and Transport Regional Offices for the South-East from 1977 to 1980. The papers with covering dates from 1946 to 1973 on files in this class did not originate in the Division, but are instead documents submitted to the Heathrow Terminal 4 Inquiry which provide a pretty full history of development at Heathrow Airport and its predecessors

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