Catalogue description Third London Airport Commission: Minutes of Public Hearings

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Reference: BT 330
Title: Third London Airport Commission: Minutes of Public Hearings
Description:

This series consists of paperback volumes recording the proceedings of the Third London Airport Commission (Roskill Commission) between November 1968 and September 1969.

The files record evidence presented by departmental experts and the larger pressure groups and focus on local site hearings and record evidence presented by a variety of groups including local authorities.
Date: 1968-1969
Arrangement:

Numerical
Related material:

Transcripts of Stage V of the hearings can be found in AT 56
Held by: The National Archives, Kew
Legal status: Public Record(s)
Language: English
Creator:

Third London Airport Commission, 1968-1971
Physical description: 29 papers
Access conditions: Open
Immediate source of acquisition:

From 1999 Department of the Environment, Transport and the Regions
Custodial history: Transferred from the Board of Trade in 1970, to the Department of the Environment, then to the Department of Transport in 1976 and then to the Department of the Environment, Transport and the Regions in 1997.
Accumulation dates: 1968-1969
Selection and destruction information: The records in this series which were previously closed for 30 years have been opened under the Open Government Initiative unless otherwise stated.
Accruals: No future accruals expected
Administrative / biographical background:

The London Airport Commission (Roskill Commission) was a non-statutory commission announced in May 1968 by the President of the Board of Trade C. A. R. Crosland, in response to adverse public reaction over the 1967 White Paper The Third London Airport. The remit was to evaluate the need for a third London airport, and the myriad considerations incumbent upon proceeding with its construction.

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