Ministry of Housing and Local Government and Department of the Environment: Inquiry...

HLG 159

1962-1974

This series contains records of enquiry into the Greater London Development Plan (GLDP), which fell into ten distinct categories: registered files, panel minutes, panel papers, circulated papers, trancsripts of proceedings, inquiry documents, objection papers, proofs of evidence, support papers and GLC supporting documents.

HLG 159/917-986 are largely duplicates of records in other sections of the list.

Most of the pieces in the section Greater London Council Support Documents (HLG 159/2687-3122) were destroyed by Department of Communities and Local Government, prior to transfer, as duplicates of Support Papers already accessioned by the National Archives.

GLDP file series

Public Record(s)

English

• Department of the Environment, London Directorate, Greater London Development Plan Secretariat, 1970-1973
• Ministry of Housing and Local Government, Housing and Planning Inspectorate, 1964-1970

3128 file(s)

Open

from 2007 Department for Communities and Local Government

from 2002 Department of the Environment, Transport and the Regions

Topics

Litigation

Local Government

Transferred to the Department of the Environment, Transport and the Regions in 1997.

1970-1972

Series is accruing

Records were selected for preservation as follows: Registered files - material relating to the setting up of the inquiry, its powers, purpose and procedures have been preserved. Routine administrative material has been destroyed. All panel minutes, circulated papers, transcripts of proceedings, inquiry documents, proofs of evidence, support papers, background papers, circulated papers with their indexes have been selected for permanent preservation. Objections from local authorities, political parties and organisations and groups who appeared at the inquiry have been selected for permanent preservation. Panel papers and GLC support documents which are not duplicated by other records have been selected for permanent preservation.

Section 25(3) of the London Government Act, 1963 required the Greater London Council to submit a general development plan, to be known as the Greater London Development Plan, to the Minister of Housing and Local Government. The GLC submitted the plan during August 1969, on 10 December 1969 the Minister announced that special arrangements would be made for an inquiry. On 29 May 1970 the Minister appointed a panel under his powers in the Town and Country Planning Act, 1962, and the London Government Act, 1963, to conduct an inquiry into the plan and to hear any objections to it.

The inquiry commenced on 7 July 1970 and sat for 237 days between then and 9 May 1972. 28,207 objections were considered and 326 objectors were heard in person.

The report of the inquiry was published on 18 December 1972.