Catalogue description Welsh Office and predecessors: Safeguarding and other Defence Maps

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Reference: BD 55
Title: Welsh Office and predecessors: Safeguarding and other Defence Maps
Description:

Safeguarding maps were produced in order to inform those making decisions on planning applications and appeals of the existence of areas where tall buildings could not be built because they overlooked areas which were regarded as sensitive.

Date: 1940-1967
Held by: The National Archives, Kew
Legal status: Public Record(s)
Language: English
Physical description: 18 files and flat sheets
Access conditions: Subject to 30 year closure unless otherwise stated
Immediate source of acquisition:

In 2003 National Assembly for Wales
Custodial history: These maps were probably created by the War Office and Air Ministry and passed by them to the Ministry of Town and Country Planning. They were later passed to the Welsh Office where they were kept in the Aerial Photographs Unit in Cathays Park.
Selection and destruction information: All surviving maps were selected
Accruals: Series is not accruing.

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