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Department of the Environment and predecessors: Third London Airport Directorate:...

Catalogue reference: AT 56

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AT 56

This series contains policy files relating to the proposals for the development of land at Stansted, Essex, and papers concerning the setting up of both the local public inquiry and the commission on the Third London Airport (Roskill Commission),...

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Reference
AT 56
Title
Department of the Environment and predecessors: Third London Airport Directorate: Registered Files (TLA Series)
Date
1962-1983
Description

This series contains policy files relating to the proposals for the development of land at Stansted, Essex, and papers concerning the setting up of both the local public inquiry and the commission on the Third London Airport (Roskill Commission), including verbatim transcripts of evidence presented.

The series includes some files which were re-registered into the TLA file series from the P2 and P3 file series (HLG 131), the PF3 series (HLG 145), and the LP series: MT 135.

Arrangement
Arrangement

The files in this series will be transferred in more than one batch and arranged in previous reference order within each accession.

Related material

and BT 330

Other files relating to the Roskill Commission can be found in: BT 176

Separated material

Other files in the TLA prefix can be found in

CM 32

Held by
The National Archives, Kew
Former department reference
TLA file series
Legal status
Public Record(s)
Language
English
Physical description
138 files and volumes
Access conditions
Open
Immediate source of acquisition

from 1998 Department for Transport, Local Government and the Regions

Accruals
Series is accruing
Selection and destruction information
Several files contain papers originating outside the Third London Airport Directorate and generally these have not been selected for preservation.
Record URL
https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C2574/

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Department of the Environment and predecessors: Third London Airport Directorate: Registered Files (TLA Series)