Catalogue description Welsh Office: Roads Administration Division: Registered Files (WR Series)

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Reference: BD 112
Title: Welsh Office: Roads Administration Division: Registered Files (WR Series)
Description:

Registered files of the Roads Administartion Division concerning: pre-construction programming of road schemes; budgetary control; contracts and agreements; highways orders; land acquisition and management; planning blight and compensation; administration for motorway and trunk road new constructions and improvement, maintenance, street lighting and signals; abnormal loads and road classification.

The WR series was superseded by the ZB and ZC prefixes
Date: 1970-1989
Held by: The National Archives, Kew
Former reference in its original department: WR series
Legal status: Public Record(s)
Language: English
Creator:

Welsh Government, 2011-

Welsh Office, 1965-1999

Welsh Office, Transport and Highways Directorate, 1965-1973
Physical description: 26 file(s)
Access conditions: Open unless otherwise stated
Immediate source of acquisition:

In 2005 National Assembly for Wales
Custodial history: Records were in semi-current storage at the Assembly Records Centre, Neptune Point, Ocean Way, Cardiff CF24 5PG
Accumulation dates: 1976 - 2002
Selection and destruction information: The following criteria for selection of policy files was used: design, construction and maintenance of key roads (M4, A465, A55); policy on financial support for road building and passenger transport; promotion of North to South and South to North transport links; Rhoose Airport development; Channel Tunnel effect on Welsh transport infrastructure
Accruals: Series is accruing.
Administrative / biographical background:

The Roads Administration Division was the successor body to the Roads Division (Highways Group) of the Welsh Office and was formed in 1976. It was part of the Transport and Highways Group. The Division was organised into four branches: the Land & Compensation Branch responsible for acquisition and management of land for construction and maintenance of roads and motorways; the Statutory Orders and Procedures Branch, responsible for planning blight, compulsory purchase orders, highways orders and public local inquiries; the Financial Management Branch responsible for the financial control of the roads programme; the IT Systems Branch responsible for the divisions information technology requirements.

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