Catalogue description Department of the Environment and successors: Housing Renewal Division; Registered Files (HRP series)

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Reference: AT 143
Title: Department of the Environment and successors: Housing Renewal Division; Registered Files (HRP series)
Description:

Records in this series contain policy files of the Housing Renewal Policy Division, which include interpreting and implementing the provisions of the Local Government and Housing Act 1989.
Date: 1988-1997
Held by: The National Archives, Kew
Former reference in its original department: HRP series
Legal status: Public Record(s)
Language: English
Creator:

Department of the Environment, 1970-1997

Department of the Environment, Housing Associations, Revenue Division, 1989-1993

Department of the Environment, Transport and the Regions, 1997-2001

Office of the Deputy Prime Minister, 2002-2006
Physical description: 75 file(s)
Access conditions: Open unless otherwise stated
Immediate source of acquisition:

From 2018 Department for Communities and Local Government
Custodial history: Department of Environment 1988-1996, Department of Environment, Transport and the Regions 1997-2001, Department of Transport, Local Government and the Regions 2001-2002, Office of the Deputy Prime Minister 2002-2006; and Department for Communities and Local Government 2006-
Selection and destruction information: Policy files are recommended for retention. Non-primary and routine files are not.
Accruals: Series is accruing.
Administrative / biographical background:

In 1988 the HRP (Housing Renewal Policy) Division was set up as part of the re-organisation of the Housing Divisions which spawned the breaking up of the large and well established H prefix (HLG 118). HRP was responsible for private sector home and area improvement policy, slum clearance policy and the homes insulation scheme. In 1991 responsibilities were extended to encompass renovation grants, renewal areas, home improvement agencies and energy efficiency. In 1995 this was extended to all health and environment issues affecting housing. In 2000 HRP ceased to exist when HRPO (Housing Renewal and Private Ownership) was formed encompassing HPF (Housing Private Finance: AT 141) and HRTB (Housing Right to Buy: AT 131). There was not an HRPO prefix and the existing prefixes continued to be used until 2002 when HPS (Housing Private Sector) was set up by amalgamating HRPO with HPRS (Housing Private Rented Sector).

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