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Department of the Environment and successors: Planning Development and Control Directorate,...

Catalogue reference: AT 97

What's it about?

AT 97

This series contains Planning Development and Control Directorate registered files in the PDC series dealing with development control and planning, planning appeals and land transaction policy.

Full description and record details

Reference

AT 97

Title
Department of the Environment and successors: Planning Development and Control Directorate, Registered Files (PDC Series)
Date

1980-2001

Description

This series contains Planning Development and Control Directorate registered files in the PDC series dealing with development control and planning, planning appeals and land transaction policy.

Held by
The National Archives, Kew
Former department reference

PDC

Legal status

Public Record(s)

Language

English

Creator(s)
  • Department of the Environment, Planning and Development Control Directorate, 1988-1993
  • Department of the Environment, Planning Directorate, 1993-1997
  • Department of the Environment, Planning Land Use Policy Directorate, 1972-1987
  • Department of the Environment, Transport and the Regions, Planning Directorate, 1997-2001
Physical description

372 file(s)

Access conditions

Open unless otherwise stated

Immediate source of acquisition

From 2008 Department for Communities and Local Government

Custodial history

PDC records passed from the control of the Department of the Environment in 1997 to the Department of the Environment, Transport and the Regions, then to the Department of Transport, Local Government and the Regions in 2001, and to the Office of the Deputy Prime Minister in 2002.

Accumulation dates

1988-1996

Accruals

Series is accruing.

Selection and destruction information

Records selected under Acquisition Policy criteria 2.2.2.1 and 2.2.2.2

Administrative / biographical background

The Planning and Development Control Directorate was created in 1988 in the Department of the Environment, taking over the functions previously handled by the Planning Land Use Policy Directorate. The Directorate initially handled matters relating to development planning, land transactions, specialist planning appeals and development control. In 1991, responsibility for planning and development in the inner cities and the urban development corporations was added. In 1993 the Directorate was renamed the Planning Directorate.

Record URL
https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C16396/

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Department of the Environment and successors: Planning Development and Control Directorate, Registered Files (PDC Series)