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Department of the Environment: Planning Policy, Research and Analysis (PPMNT Series)...

Catalogue reference: AT 107

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AT 107

This series contains Planning Policy, Research and Analysis (PPMNT Series) files within the Planning Policy, Minerals and New Towns Directorate. The PPMNT prefix was used by the Planning Policy Research and Analysis Division, the other divisions...

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Reference
AT 107
Title
Department of the Environment: Planning Policy, Research and Analysis (PPMNT Series) Files
Date
1982-1994
Description

This series contains Planning Policy, Research and Analysis (PPMNT Series) files within the Planning Policy, Minerals and New Towns Directorate.

The PPMNT prefix was used by the Planning Policy Research and Analysis Division, the other divisions in the Directorate continuing to use their established prefixes (M for Minerals, NT for New Towns, part of the PLUP series for land transactions and PI and PID for the international work).

Arrangement

By former reference

Related material

See also: AT 36 AT 29 AT 79 AT 81 AT 82

Held by
The National Archives, Kew
Former department reference
PPMNT
Legal status
Public Record(s)
Language
English
Creator(s)
Department of the Environment, Planning Policy, Minerals and New Towns Directorate, 1981-1985
Physical description
60 file(s)
Access conditions
Open unless otherwise stated
Immediate source of acquisition

From 2009 Department for Communities and Local Government

Custodial history
Department of the Environment 1981-1997; Department of the Environment, Transport and the Regions 1997-2001; Department of Transport, Local Government and the Regions 2001- 2002; Office of the Deputy Prime Minister 2002-2006; Department of Communities and Local Government 2006 on
Accruals
Series is accruing.
Administrative / biographical background

The Planning Policy, Minerals and New Towns Directorate was created in late 1981 and comprised five divisions:

Planning Policy Research and Analysis Division PPMNT 1 (for a very short time the international work of PPMNT 1 formed a separate division, PPMNT 1a); Minerals Planning Division PPMNT 2; Cartographic Services PPMNT 3; New Towns Divisions 1 and 2 PPMNT 4 PPMNT 5.

The Planning Policy Research and Analysis Division was partly a continuation of the former Planning Intelligence Division (AT 79). Its functions were co-ordination of planning research, analysis and information and policy on Departmental relations with the voluntary sector. The division performed work on the voluntary sector itself. In terms of planning research it funnelled research proposals from the Planning Land Use Policy (PLUP - AT 29), Development Plans and Regional Policy (DPRP - AT 36) and Inner Cities (ICD - AT 81) divisions through itself exercising a degree of control over what was submitted to the Directorate General of Research (DGR - AT 82).

Record URL
https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C16562/

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Department of the Environment: Planning Policy, Research and Analysis (PPMNT Series) Files