Catalogue description Department of the Environment: Planning, Minerals and Countryside Directorate: Registered Files (PMC Series)

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Reference: AT 57
Title: Department of the Environment: Planning, Minerals and Countryside Directorate: Registered Files (PMC Series)
Description:

The series contains registered files of the Planning, Minerals and Countryside Directorate relating to legal issues involved in permitting mineral working on land belonging to the National Trust.

The series includes some files which were re-registered into the PMC series from the earlier C2 series (HLG 4) of the Ministry of Housing and Local Government. The PMC series was replaced by series DRA1 and 3, WLF and RUR.
Date: 1966 - 1973
Separated material:

After 1974 some files were re-registered from the PMC series into the DL series.
Held by: The National Archives, Kew
Former reference in its original department: PMC file series
Legal status: Public Record(s)
Language: English
Creator:

Department of the Environment, Planning, Minerals and Countryside Directorate, 1972-1974
Physical description: 2 file(s)
Access conditions: Subject to 30 year closure
Immediate source of acquisition:

From 1997 Department of the Environment
Selection and destruction information: It is unlikely that many more files, if any, will be transferred into this series.
Accruals: Series is accruing
Administrative / biographical background:

The Planning, Minerals and Countryside Directorate of the Department of the Environment was established, initially to deal with rural planning issues.

The directorate's four divisions were responsible for general questions on rural amenities and recreation; national parks; liaison with the Countryside Commission; land use planning; and general policy and legislation on minerals and derelict land.

Prior to the establishment of the directorate, these functions had previously been carried out by the Minerals Division of the Ministry of Housing and Local Government from 1951 until about 1967, and then by the ministry's Countryside Division until 1969. From 1969 to about 1972 these functions were carried out by Planning Division C which became part of the newly created Department of the Environment in 1970.

In 1974, the Planning, Minerals and Countryside Directorate merged with the Planning, Regional Development Directorate to form the Planning, Regional and Minerals Directorate.

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