Catalogue description Transport Ministries: Highway Procedures and Legislation (HPL Series) Files

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Details of MT 199
Reference: MT 199
Title: Transport Ministries: Highway Procedures and Legislation (HPL Series) Files
Description:

These records detail policy on land acquisition and disposal; land compensation; trunk road statutory procedures (including Public Inquiries); public consultation; planning blight; agreement on bridges, tunnels mining etc; highways legislation and preparation and drafting of the Highways Manual.
Date: 1973-1981
Arrangement:

Within each transfer the records will be arranged in former reference order thereby reflecting their original administrative arrangement.
Held by: The National Archives, Kew
Former reference in its original department: HPL series
Legal status: Public Record(s)
Language: English
Creator:

Department of Transport, Compensation and Lands, 1980-1981

Department of Transport, Highways Programming, Contacts and Lands Division, 1977-1979
Physical description: 25 file(s)
Access conditions: Open
Immediate source of acquisition:

From 2005 Department for Transport
Custodial history: Since the file series ceased to accrue the records have been in the custody of the Department of Transport (1981-1997), The Department of the Environment, Transport and the Regions (1997-2001), the Department of Transport, Local Government and the Regions (2001-2002) and the Department for Transport (2002 to date).
Accumulation dates: 1977-1980
Selection and destruction information: These records have been selected as they reflect the economic, social and demographic condition of the UK, as documented by the state's dealings with individuals, communities and organisations outside its own formal boundaries (2.2.2.1 of PRO's Acquisition Policy).
Accruals: Series is accruing
Administrative / biographical background:

The Highways Procedures and Legislation Division was formed in 1979 as part of the Highways Programming, Contracts and Land Directorate. The following year it was subsumed into the Compensation and Lands Division, taking over responsibility for the Highways Land and Legal work.

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