Ministry of Aviation: Aerodromes Planning Division and Airports (London and Prestwick)...

AVIA 119

1961-1966

Contains registered files of the Aerodromes Planning Division and Airports London and Prestwick Division, Branch ALP 1. The files concern the policy, development and management of the Group 1 airports (Heathrow, Gatwick, Stansted, Prestwick), the preparation for the Third London Airport, and preparatory work for the establishment of the British Aviation Authority.

The EP prefix included papers from the APA and APB Divisions (BT 247) which related to aerodrome planning.

Arranged according to policy and precedent by transfer.

For other papers relating to areodrome planning see BT 247

EP file series

Public Record(s)

English

• Ministry of Aviation, Aerodrome Planning Divisions A and B, 1959-1963
• Ministry of Aviation, Airports, London and Prestwick Division Branch ALP 1, 1963-1966

21 file(s)

Subject to 30 year closure

From 1998 Department of the Environment, Transport and the Regions

Topics

Air transport

Transferred successively to the Board of Trade in 1967, Department of Trade and Industry in 1970, Department of Trade in 1974, Department of Transport in 1976 and Department of the Environment, Transport and the Regions in 1997.

1961

series is accruing

Selected for policy and precedent, with particular emphasis on files concerning the proposed Third London Airport with Stansted as the most likely site.

The Airports London and Prestwick Division was created under the auspices of the Ministry of Aviation in 1963 to deal with the burgeoning international airport sector.

The Aerodromes Management Division was created in 1960 in the Ministry of Aviation. In 1963 it was renamed Airports (London, Prestwick) Division and then comprised two branches: the ALP 1 branch, which used the EP file prefix (AVIA 119), and the ALP 2 branch (AVIA 118), which used the EK prefix files.The Division was responsible for the policy, development and management of the Group 1 airports of Heathrow, Gatwick, Stansted and Prestwick, and for the development of additional international airport facilities (including a central heliport for London), In 1963, the Division conducted the public inquiry on the siting of the Third London Airport at Stansted. The Division and successors had a preparatory role in the legislation for the British Airports Authority, founded in 1965, and was involved in the general co-ordination of financial matters relating to airports.