Catalogue description Property Services Agency and predecessors: London Region: Registered Files and Papers.

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Reference: CM 8
Title: Property Services Agency and predecessors: London Region: Registered Files and Papers.
Description:

Files of the Directorate of Works (London) of the Ministry of Works and then of the Ministry of Public Buildings and Works and those of the London Region of the Property Services Agency relating to maintenance, repair and restoration work on government buildings and on royal palaces and parks in the London area, for which the London Region had special responsibility.

The LSS series of files was raised circa 1974 by the newly formed PSA London Region. It consists mainly of files re-registered from the WY series of the former Directorate of Works (London) relating to the case work of the Special Services Section.
Date: 1910-1992
Held by: The National Archives, Kew
Former reference in its original department: LSS file series
Legal status: Public Record(s)
Language: English
Creator:

Property Services Agency, London Region, 1972-1990
Physical description: 268 file(s)
Access conditions: Open unless otherwise stated
Immediate source of acquisition:

From 2003 Department for Transport, Local Government and the Regions
Accruals: Series is accruing
Administrative / biographical background:

The Property Services Agency's London Region was established in about 1974. The Special Services Section of the Directorate of Works (London), and from circa 1974 of the London Region of the PSA, employed building surveyors and engineers etc overseen by a Superintending Manager to deal with maintenance, repair and restoration work on special buildings in the Greater London area, such as Ancient Monuments, Museums & Art Galleries, Historic Buildings, Royal Parks and Palaces and the Houses of Parliament.

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