Catalogue description Ministry of Housing and Local Government and predecessors: Legal and Parliamentary Branch and predecessors: Housing Instruments and Consents

Consents by the Local Government Board, the Ministry of Health and their successors for the erection of houses, for street and sewerage works, sale, exchange and lease of land, the purchase and appropriation of land and for various other matters under the Housing Acts 1890-1955 and in other legislation containing housing provisions. Rights of Way Extinguishment Orders are also included. The series contains both sealed and unsealed documents, many with folded plans. Up to 1920 the papers have been bound.

The papers dated March 1910 to July 1920 are in bound volumes: the later papers are unbound and date to 26.2.1955 when owing to a change in procedure within the Department the deposit was discontinued (instead of two sealed Orders, one only was made and sent to the local authority; the Department retained a copy).

The Acts quoted include:-

Housing for the Working Classes Act, 1890, 1901, 1903, 1909

Housing Act, 1919, 1923, 1925, 1930, 1936

Local Government Act, 1888, 1889

Public Health Act, 1907

Burial Act, 1900

Further series of consents will be found in

Related correspondence is in HLG 1

HLG 2

HLG 15

HLG 17

(corporate lands) HLG 18

Copies of similar orders are in HLG 47

Related correspondence is in MH 12

Local Government Board, 1871-1919

Ministry of Housing and Local Government, 1951-1970

Ministry of Local Government and Planning, 1951-1951

Ministry of Town and Country Planning, 1943-1951

Ministry of Works, 1943-1962

Ministry of Works and Buildings, 1940-1942

Ministry of Works and Planning, 1942-1943