Department of the Environment: Planning, Regional Plans Directorate: Registered Files...

This series contains registered files of the Planning, Regional Plans Directorate.

The files include proposals for bringing the expanding towns into the demographic records system and grants towards the cost of the main sewerage and sewage works required for town development schemes. The series also includes papers concerning procedural issues on the methods of operating the Industrial Selection Scheme and the selection and rehousing of persons willing to move to new or expanding towns.

The series includes some earlier files which were re-registered into the PRP series from the Ministry of Housing and Local Government file series P8 and possibly P7 (both HLG 131), and PD2: HLG 142

The files in this series have been transferred in more than one batch. They are arranged in previous reference order within each accession.

For related information concerning regional planning and development policy (including policy on the Green Belt), see HLG 143

For files re-registered into the DPRP series, see

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Department of the Environment , from 1996

Topics

Population

Sewerage

The Planning, Regional Plans Directorate was set up in 1973 soon after the reorganisation of the Planning Divisions in 1971 to 1972. It took on the responsibilities previously undertaken by a number of divisions of the former Planning Service B Directorate.

The Planning, Regional Plans Directorate was primarily responsible for regional economic and technical planning advice within the national framework for regional planning and monitoring assessment of regional strategies. These included rural planning development policy and Green Belt policy and procedures. It also co-ordinated planning proposals and policies into a national framework. Town development and the Industrial Selection Scheme was also administered under the Town Development Act 1952 together with household projections and questions of grants and loans for the acquisition of land for housing and industry. These duties were undertaken by five sub-divisions within the directorate.

In 1975 the directorate was disbanded. Its responsibilities were redistributed across the Department of the Environment and incorporated into the work of other directorates, such as the Planning, Sport and Countryside Directorate and the Development Planning and Regional Strategies Directorate.