Department of the Environment and successors: Airports Policy Division: Registered...

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Department of the Environment and successors: Airports Policy Division: Registered Files (APD series)

1946-2003

The selected files detail planning policy relating to airports. They include records of the public inquiry into a fourth terminal at Heathrow Airport.

APD

Public Record(s)

English

• Department for Transport, 2002-2002
• Department for Transport, Local Government and the Regions, 2001-2002
• Department of the Environment, 1970-1997
• Department of the Environment, Airports Policy Division, 1974-1977
• Department of the Environment, Transport and the Regions, 1997-2001
• Departments of the Environment and Transport - Regional Offices, South-East, 1977-1980
• Ministry of Housing and Local Government, 1951-1970
• Ministry of Town and Country Planning, 1943-1951
• Ministry of Transport, 1946-1953

206 file(s)

Open unless otherwise stated

From 2005 Office of the Deputy Prime Minister

Topics

Air transport

Since the file series ceased to accumulate the records have been in the custody of the Department of the Environment (1981-1997), the Department of Environment, Transport and the Regions (1997-2001), the Department for Transport, Local Government and the Regions (2001-2002) and the Office of the Deputy Prime Minister (2002 to date).

The APD series ran 1974-1980.

The series will accrue.

These files have been selected for permanent preservation as they reflect the economic, social and demographic condition of the UK as documented by the state's dealings with individuals, communities and organisations outside its own formal boundaries (2.2.2.1 of PRO's Acquisition Policy).

The Airports Policy Division was established in 1974 as part of the Department of the Environment's South-East Region Planning Department. By 1977 references in the Civil Service Year Book to this division cease, however, 'Airports' is a function allocated to the Chief Planning Officer in the Departments of the Environment and Transport Regional Offices for the South-East from 1977 to 1980. The papers with covering dates from 1946 to 1973 on files in this class did not originate in the Division, but are instead documents submitted to the Heathrow Terminal 4 Inquiry which provide a pretty full history of development at Heathrow Airport and its predecessors