Catalogue description Ministry of Education and Department of Education and Science: Architects and Building Branch: Local Education Authority Major Building Projects, Registered Files (G Series)

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Details of ED 154
Reference: ED 154
Title: Ministry of Education and Department of Education and Science: Architects and Building Branch: Local Education Authority Major Building Projects, Registered Files (G Series)
Description:

Files of the Ministry of Education and Department of Education and Science, Architects and Building Branch concerning major education building projects carried out in the post-Second World War period.

The earliest Welsh file is dated 1957.

Many of the files include plans.
Date: 1946-1976
Arrangement:

In alphabetical order of counties followed by county boroughs, with a separate section for Wales.
Related material:

Records of the Welsh Department and successors: Division within ED

Primary and secondary development plans for Wales are in BD 7

For primary and secondary school development plans see ED 152
Separated material:

No files for Wales for the period 1946-1957 have been found.
Held by: The National Archives, Kew
Former reference in its original department: G file series
Legal status: Public Record(s)
Language: English
Creator:

Department of Education and Science, Architects and Building Branch, 1964-1982

Ministry of Education, 1944-1964

Ministry of Education, Architects and Building Branch, 1956-1964

Ministry of Education, Architects Branch, 1949-1956
Physical description: 419 file(s)
Access conditions: Subject to 30 year closure
Administrative / biographical background:

The qualification of a"major" project was originally applied to those projects which cost £5000 or more, but this lower limit was subsequently increased because of progressively rising building costs.

  • The chief types of project were:
  • to meet the needs for schools on new housing estates;
  • to rectify shortages of accommodation at existing schools;
  • to meet the demand for additional places as a result of raising the compulsory school age in 1947.

In general, the projects resulted from the adoption of development plans submitted by local education authorities to the department for approval under the provision of part 2, section 11, of the Education Act 1944.

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