Catalogue description Ministry of Housing and Local Government and Department of the Environment: Regional Offices: Registered Files

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Details of HLG 156
Reference: HLG 156
Title: Ministry of Housing and Local Government and Department of the Environment: Regional Offices: Registered Files
Description:

This series contains the files of all the regional offices, with the exception of London Regional Office, which has its own separate series. Regional offices dealt with a wide variety of work in the fields of town and country planning (including rights of way and historic buildings), housing and urban regeneration. The offices were also the main point of contact between the Department and the regions.

HLG 156/851-1383 relate to the public inquiry into the proposed expansion of Gatwick Airport, 1980, with an index of documents at HLG 156/860.
Date: 1946-1999
Arrangement:

Files are arranged by region and by previous reference order within each region.

The Regional Offices corresponded to the standard regions which were always listed in a standard order:

  • 1.- Northern.
  • 2.- Yorkshire and Humberside.
  • 3.- East Midlands.
  • 4.- Eastern.
  • 5.- London.
  • 6.- South Eastern.
  • 7.- South Western.
  • 8.- Wales.
  • 9.- West Midlands.
  • 10.- North Western.
Related material:

Files of the London Regional Office for planning and housing:

AT 41

AT 88
Held by: The National Archives, Kew
Former reference in its original department: E file series; EMP file series; EMH file series; MTF file series; N file series; NW file series; SE file series; SER file series; SW file series; WM file series; YH file series
Legal status: Public Record(s)
Language: English
Creator:

Department for Communities and Local Government, 2006-2018

Department of the Environment, 1970-1997

Ministry of Housing and Local Government, Regional Offices, 1951-1970

Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government, 2018-
Physical description: 1437 file(s)
Access conditions: Open
Immediate source of acquisition:

From 1999 Department of the Environment, Transport and the Regions
Custodial history: Transferred in 1997 to the Department of the Environment, Transport, and the Regions.
Accumulation dates: 1954-1979
Selection and destruction information: Files selected for preservation deal with regional office input into the formulation of policy that is either of an unusual nature or is particularly illustrative of the regional offices' functions.
Accruals: Series is accruing.
Administrative / biographical background:

When the Ministry of Housing and Local Government was established in 1951, the regional offices inherited from its predecessor departments were retained and re-organised. A subsequent process of centralisation was reversed in the 1960s, and the Labour Government in 1964 created six regional offices, which were added to in 1976 with the creation of regional offices for Eastern and South Eastern regions. They continued to exist in a recognisable form until 1994.

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