Welsh Office: Planning Services Division: Registered Files (PLS prefix)

BD 118

1972-1993

The series contains registered files raised by the Planning Services Division relating to industrial development, derelict land reclamation, oversight of the Environmental Improvement Programme, off-shore oil and gas exploration in the Celtic Sea, the Welsh Seaboard Study into the impact of planning and environmental policies on the preservation of the coast, proposals for a River Severn barrage and a second River Severn crossing.

The PLS prefix denotes the 'Planning and Land Services' registry theme.

The records are arranged chronologically in file prefix order.

PLS prefix

Public Record(s)

English

36 file(s)

Open unless otherwise stated

From 2018 Welsh Assembly Government

Topics

Oil and gas

These records were stored in the Welsh Office at Cathays Park and Neptune Point in Cardiff prior to transfer to The National Archives.

1973 to 1996

Series is accruing

RCP s 3.1.1 the principal policies and actions of the UK central government and English and Welsh Governments

The Planning Services Division was responsible for land development structure plans and local plans. It provided professional advice on development control matters and planning and land use implications of national and regional policies including housing, industry, the countryside, recreation, energy, minerals, hazardous uses and waste disposal. It promoted planning research and maintained a register of industrial sites. The Division also managed the Welsh Office's Drawing Office and maintained a Map Library, Air Photographs Library and a Land Use Records System. In 1991, Planning Services Division was amalgamated into the Welsh Office's Planning Division (within Transport, Planning and Environment Group).