Catalogue description Local Government Board and successors: Housing and Town Planning Department and successors: Planning Schemes, Registered Files

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Reference: HLG 4
Title: Local Government Board and successors: Housing and Town Planning Department and successors: Planning Schemes, Registered Files
Description:

Files of the Local Government Board and the Ministry of Health relating to general planning schemes of local authorities and joint planning committees, interim development and related matters. The working plans of individual schemes have so far as possible been associated with the files.
Date: 1905-1951
Arrangement:

These files are grouped into four sequences, reflecting different types of authority responsible for the planning schemes:

  • County Councils (local authorities 651 to 713);
  • County Borough, Borough and Urban District Councils, with some Town and City Councils (local authorities 714 to 1869);
  • Rural District Councils (local authorities 1870 to 2518);
  • Joint Committees (local authorities JC-1 to JC-356).

Each sequence is in local authority number order; except for the Joint Committees, these numbers mainly follow alphabetical order. Some files are out of sequence at the end of the series. There are no files for some local authorities.

Files relating to a particular local authority are in order of planning scheme number. These numbers usually start from 501 onwards. In some cases there is more than one file for the same scheme. A letter suffix may indicate the subject matter:

  • A: Preliminary Statement;
  • B: Scheme;
  • D: Inquiries;
  • E: Appeals under Interim Development Orders;
  • F: Compulsory Puchase Orders;
  • L: Approvals under Article 4b:, General Interim Development Order, 1933;
  • M: Miscellaneous correspondence;
  • N: Contravention of Scheme Appeals;
  • P: Appeals under operative schemes;
  • Q: Relaxation of Byelaws under General Interim Development Order, 1933;
  • R: Agreements;
  • S: Orders under operative schemes;
  • T: Approval of type of streets under operative schemes;
  • V: Appropriations of Local Authorities' Land;
  • W: Valuation;
  • Z: Records: operative schemes.

Related material:

See also HLG 47

Related maps and plans are in HLG 5

Later correspondence will be found in HLG 71

Contemporary registers of planning schemes containing references to these files will be found in HLG 95
Separated material:

Some files from this series were re-registered into Department of the Environment series: see AT 57
Held by: The National Archives, Kew
Legal status: Public Record(s)
Language: English
Creator:

Local Government Board, Housing and Town Planning Department, 1910-1919

Ministry of Health, Planning Division, 1919-1940

Ministry of Housing and Local Government, Planning (London and Home Counties) Division, 1951-1963
Physical description: 4005 file(s)
Access conditions: Open

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