Catalogue description Records of Countryside Divisions

Details of Division within HLG
Reference: Division within HLG
Title: Records of Countryside Divisions
Description:

Records of the Countryside Division and its predecessors relating to rural aspects of planning and local government.

Files of the division are in HLG 140
Date: 1950-1969
Related material:

See also the records of the Countryside Commission: COU

General and finance files relating to national parks and countryside are in HLG 92

Files relating to land tenure and commons and allotments are in MAF 235
Legal status: Public Record(s)
Language: English
Creator:

Ministry of Housing and Local Government, Countryside Division, 1967-1968

Ministry of Housing and Local Government, Planning Divisions, 1951-1970

Ministry of Land and Natural Resources, 1964-1967
Physical description: 1 series
Administrative / biographical background:

From 1951 access to the countryside and tree preservation work was undertaken by the Planning Divisions of the Ministry of Housing and Local Government. In 1965 responsibility passed to the Ministry of Land and Natural Resources. When that department was abolished in 1967 responsibility in these matters for England returned to the Minister of Housing and Local Government and a Countryside Division was set up to carry out this work together with duties in connection with commons and allotments.

The division also assumed responsibility for work in connection with historic buildings, control of advertisements, caravans and gipsies, control of mineral workings, and reclamation of derelict land formerly carried out by the Planning Divisions. By 1970 the division had been reabsorbed within the Planning Divisions and its countryside liaison work was being conducted with the Countryside Commission.

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