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Transport Ministries: Urban and Regional Professional 'C' Division Files
Catalogue reference: MT 189
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MT 189
This series consists of records documenting urban economic matters including economic planning, appraisal and research, acoustic modelling of noise from roads, London road congestion costs, the Lincoln land use/transportation study, the Greater...
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Reference (The unique identifier to the record described, used to order and refer to it)
- MT 189
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Title (The name of the record)
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Transport Ministries: Urban and Regional Professional 'C' Division Files
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Date (When the record was created)
- 1969-1973
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Description (What the record is about)
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This series consists of records documenting urban economic matters including economic planning, appraisal and research, acoustic modelling of noise from roads, London road congestion costs, the Lincoln land use/transportation study, the Greater London Development Plan, the Heathrow Airport Fixed Rail Link and the Stevenage Bus Demonstration Project.
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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)
- URPC
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Legal status (A note as to whether the record being described is a Public Record or not)
- Public Record(s)
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Language (The language of the record)
- English
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Creator(s) (The creator of the record)
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- Department of the Environment, 1970-1997
- Ministry of Transport, 1959-1970
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Physical description (The amount and form of the record)
- 22 file(s)
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Access conditions (Information on conditions that restrict or affect access to the record)
- Open
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Immediate source of acquisition (When and where the record was acquired from)
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From 2002 Department of the Environment, Transport and the Regions
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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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Accumulation dates (The dates the record was accumulated)
- File series ran from 1969 to 1973
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Accruals (Indicates whether the archive expects to receive further records in future)
- Series is accruing
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Selection and destruction information (Information about how the record was selected for archiving)
- Selected to show policy work of the Division (2.2.2.1 and 2.2.2.2)
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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 earliest records were created by the Urban and Regional Professional 'C' Division within the Directorate General of Economic Planning. In 1971 this division became the responsibility of the Urban and Professional Group within the newly-established Department of the Environment. By January 1972 the division had been split: one part formed a new division dealing with London and the South East; the other part became Planning Urban Project Appraisal Division 3 of the Planning Urban Project Appraisal Directorate, which continued in existence until 1976.
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C15813/
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