Catalogue description Department of the Environment and successors: Heathrow Terminal Five and Associated Public Inquiries: Registered and Un-registered Files

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Reference: AT 154
Title: Department of the Environment and successors: Heathrow Terminal Five and Associated Public Inquiries: Registered and Un-registered Files
Description:

This series contains records comprising of the Inspector's papers (including the final report and decision letter), the transcripts of the inquiry and pre-inquiry meetings, position statements, documents submitted to the inquiry, supporting documents and decision and challenge documents.
Note: Records with earlier creation dates may be found within this series. It is believed that these were not created in the context of this series
Date: 1952-2001
Held by: The National Archives, Kew
Legal status: Public Record(s)
Language: English
Creator:

Department of the Environment, 1970-1997

Department of the Environment, Transport and the Regions, 1997-2001
Physical description: 4867 file(s)
Access conditions: Open unless otherwise stated
Custodial history: 1993-1997 - Department of the Environment; 1997-2001 - Department of the Environment, Transport and the Regions; 2001-2002 - Department of Transport, Local Government and the Regions; 2002-2006 - Office of the Deputy Prime Minister; 2006-2018 - Department for Communities and Local Government; 2018 onwards - Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government
Accumulation dates: 1993-2001
Accruals: Series is accruing
Administrative / biographical background:

British Airports Authority (BAA) formally announced its proposal for construction of Terminal 5 in May 1992, submitting a formal planning application on 17th February 1993.

On the 15th March 1993 the Secretary of State for the Environment called in the application for joint decision with the Secretary of Transport under Section 77 of the Town and Country Planning Act 1990. On the 29th March 1994 Mr A R Vandameer QC, LLB was appointed as Inspector (known as Roy Vandameer) with a Deputy Inspector, seven Assistant Inspectors and a separate Chairman for some of the Noise Joint Working Party sessions.

The public inquiry into the proposals began on 16th May 1995 and ended on 17th March 1999 and sat for 525 days. The inquiry, based at the Renaissance Hotel Heathrow, was the longest planning inquiry ever held in the UK. Planning permission for the building of a fifth passenger terminal at Heathrow was granted on the 20th November 2001.

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