Catalogue description Welsh Office: Roads Division: Registered Files (R Series)

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Details of BD 62
Reference: BD 62
Title: Welsh Office: Roads Division: Registered Files (R Series)
Description:

The records concern the some of the more notable business of the Roads Division: notably its research on the effects of a Channel Tunnel on Welsh road transport, public complaints concerning road development acted upon by the Parliamentary Commissioner for Administration and the financial effects of proposed devolution.

Date: 1971-1988
Held by: The National Archives, Kew
Former reference in its original department: R file series
Legal status: Public Record(s)
Language: English
Physical description: 23 file(s)
Access conditions: Open
Immediate source of acquisition:

From 2005 National Assembly for Wales
Selection and destruction information: Routine road project files, which form the majority of the R file series, have not been preserved.
Accruals: Series is accruing
Administrative / biographical background:

The Roads Division was created in 1968 with the new Welsh Office. It had responsibility in Wales for: road transport policy; oversight of motorway and trunk road new construction and improvement; land acquisition and management; noise insulation and compensation claims; contracts and agreements; general standards; signing; lighting; communications; technical approval of bridges; road safety; trunk road forward programme; planning; traffic studies and statistics; control of development near trunk roads; advice on road and bridge matters, and responsibility for major road improvements.

It worked closely with the Professional and Consultative Staff Unit who were responsible for the practical work. The latter Unit comprised Engineering Inspectors, Road Engineers, Project Planners, Quantity Surveyors, Architects, Road Safety Experts, Road Planners, Research Officers, Estate Officers and Legal Advisers.

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