Catalogue description Department of the Environment and successors: Planning Development and Control Directorate, Registered Files (PDC Series)

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Reference: AT 97
Title: Department of the Environment and successors: Planning Development and Control Directorate, Registered Files (PDC Series)
Description:

This series contains Planning Development and Control Directorate registered files in the PDC series dealing with development control and planning, planning appeals and land transaction policy.
Date: 1980-2001
Held by: The National Archives, Kew
Former reference in its original department: PDC
Legal status: Public Record(s)
Language: English
Creator:

Department of the Environment, Planning and Development Control Directorate, 1988-1993

Department of the Environment, Planning Directorate, 1993-1997

Department of the Environment, Planning Land Use Policy Directorate, 1972-1987

Department of the Environment, Transport and the Regions, Planning Directorate, 1997-2001
Physical description: 291 file(s)
Access conditions: Open unless otherwise stated
Immediate source of acquisition:

From 2008 Department for Communities and Local Government
Custodial history: PDC records passed from the control of the Department of the Environment in 1997 to the Department of the Environment, Transport and the Regions, then to the Department of Transport, Local Government and the Regions in 2001, and to the Office of the Deputy Prime Minister in 2002.
Accumulation dates: 1988-1996
Selection and destruction information: Records selected under Acquisition Policy criteria 2.2.2.1 and 2.2.2.2
Accruals: Series is accruing.
Administrative / biographical background:

The Planning and Development Control Directorate was created in 1988 in the Department of the Environment, taking over the functions previously handled by the Planning Land Use Policy Directorate. The Directorate initially handled matters relating to development planning, land transactions, specialist planning appeals and development control. In 1991, responsibility for planning and development in the inner cities and the urban development corporations was added. In 1993 the Directorate was renamed the Planning Directorate.

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