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The government tried to keep the details of the Bethnal Green Tube shelter disaster of 1943 private – but a court case brought the terrible story to light.
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Ministry of Transport and successors, Urban and Regional Professional 'B' Division...
Catalogue reference: MT 107
What's it about?
MT 107
This series contains the registered files of the Urban and Regional Professional 'B' Division and its predecessor, the Transport Planning Urban Division of the Ministry of Transport and the Department of the Environment.Most of the files concern...
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Reference (The unique identifier to the record described, used to order and refer to it)
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MT 107
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Title (The name of the record)
- Ministry of Transport and successors, Urban and Regional Professional 'B' Division (Planning): Registered Files
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Date (When the record was created)
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1931-1987
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Description (What the record is about)
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This series contains the registered files of the Urban and Regional Professional 'B' Division and its predecessor, the Transport Planning Urban Division of the Ministry of Transport and the Department of the Environment.
Most of the files concern the implications for highways policy of planning applications and development plans and many relate to specific areas. There are also some files relating to urban traffic and traffic control, the role of transport in urban planning, grants to highways authorities and the control of advertisements on trunk roads.
This series includes files formerly registered under HPA, TPU, HL, HLL and UPC. Files bearing the TPW prefix which are included in this series are those files which were not re-registered under their subsequent prefix, WRPB.
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Related material (A cross-reference to other related records)
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Records of the Highways A Division can be found in MT 110
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Separated material (A cross-reference between records that are related by provenance but now kept separately)
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Some files from this series have been re-registered in the PTA series in
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Held by (Who holds the record)
- The National Archives, Kew
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Former department reference (Former identifier given by the originating creator)
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URPB and TPU Series
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Legal status (A note as to whether the record being described is a Public Record or not)
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Public Record(s)
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Language (The language of the record)
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English
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Creator(s) (The creator of the record)
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- Department of the Environment, Passenger and Urban Transport Planning Group, Urban and Regional Professional B Division, 1970-1973
- Department of the Environment, Traffic and Transport Planning Division, 1971-1975
- Ministry of Transport and Civil Aviation, Highways Administration Group, 1953-1959
- Ministry of Transport, Highways Administration Group, 1951-1953
- Ministry of Transport, Highways Divisions, 1937-1941
- Ministry of Transport, Highways Divisions, 1946-1953
- Ministry of Transport, Highways Lands and Development Division, 1959-1966
- Ministry of Transport, Passenger and Urban Transport Planning Group, Traffic and Transport Planning B Division, 1968-1968
- Ministry of Transport, Passenger and Urban Transport Planning Group, Urban and Regional Professional B Division, 1968-1970
- Ministry of Transport, Roads Department, 1919-1937
- Ministry of Transport, Transport Planning Urban Division, 1967-1968
- Ministry of Transport, Urban Traffic Policy Division, 1966-1968
- Ministry of War Transport, Highways Divisions, 1941-1946
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Physical description (The amount and form of the record)
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404 file(s)
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Access conditions (Information on conditions that restrict or affect access to the record)
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Open
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Immediate source of acquisition (When and where the record was acquired from)
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From 1982 Department of Transport
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Subjects (Categories and themes found in our collection (our subject list is under development, and some records may have no subjects or fewer than expected))
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Accruals (Indicates whether the archive expects to receive further records in future)
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Series is accruing
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Administrative / biographical background (Historical or biographical information about the creator of the record and the context of its creation)
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The Urban and Regional Professional 'B' Division (URPB) was created as part of the Passenger and Urban Transport Planning Group set up at the end of 1968. It replaced the short-lived Traffic and Transport Planning B Division (TTPB) which had responsibility for development plans and development control and, like TTPB, URPB was a wholly integrated division of engineering and administrative staffs. Before 1969 subject to organizational changes, this work has been carried out by the Urban Planning and Classified Roads Policy Division (UPC), Transport Planning Urban Division (TPU) and to a lesser extent, Highways Lands and Development Division (HL). URPB continued until the reorganisation of all planning divisions within the Department of the Environment in 1973.
The division was concerned mainly with the evaluation of development plans drawn up under the Town and Country Planning Acts, especially the engineering aspects and budgetary implications. It worked in liaison with the Ministry of Housing and Local Government on this and other planning matters such as new towns and national parks where there was a highway interest. It was responsible for policy in making 'planning blight' grants to highway authorities towards the cost of acquisition of land, as well as carrying out transportation studies and classification of roads.
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C11156/
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