Catalogue description Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries and Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food: Land Drainage and Water Supply Divisions: Registered Files, Land Drainage Administration (LDA Series)

Files of the Land Drainage and Water Supply Division concerning the following subjects: administrative work under the Land Drainage Act 1930, examination of proposed legislation affecting the work of the division; sub-committee on land drainage legislation and development of policy arising therefrom; liaison with the Central Advisory Water Committee and with other departments on the Town and Country Planning Act 1947; the east coast floods of 1953 and coastal flooding in general; the Thames tidal flood prevention scheme; orders etc, under the Water Acts 1945 to 1958 and the River Boards Act 1948.

Contains some files re-registered from the RB file series: MAF 219

A few files in the LDA series may also be found in MAF 49

From 1972 Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food