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Series
Welsh Office: Roads Division: Registered Files (R Series)
Catalogue reference: BD 62
What's it about?
BD 62
The records concern the some of the more notable business of the Roads Division: notably its research on the effects of a Channel Tunnel on Welsh road transport, public complaints concerning road development acted upon by the Parliamentary...
Full description and record details
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Reference (The unique identifier to the record described, used to order and refer to it)
- BD 62
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Title (The name of the record)
- Welsh Office: Roads Division: Registered Files (R Series)
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Date (When the record was created)
- 1971-1988
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Description (What the record is about)
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The records concern the some of the more notable business of the Roads Division: notably its research on the effects of a Channel Tunnel on Welsh road transport, public complaints concerning road development acted upon by the Parliamentary Commissioner for Administration and the financial effects of proposed devolution.
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Held by (Who holds the record)
- The National Archives, Kew
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Former department reference (Former identifier given by the originating creator)
- R file series
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Legal status (A note as to whether the record being described is a Public Record or not)
- Public Record(s)
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Language (The language of the record)
- English
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Physical description (The amount and form of the record)
- 23 file(s)
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Access conditions (Information on conditions that restrict or affect access to the record)
- Open
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Immediate source of acquisition (When and where the record was acquired from)
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From 2005 National Assembly for Wales
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Subjects (Categories and themes found in our collection (our subject list is under development, and some records may have no subjects or fewer than expected))
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- Topics
- Road Transport
- Railways
- Devolution
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Accruals (Indicates whether the archive expects to receive further records in future)
- Series is accruing
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Selection and destruction information (Information about how the record was selected for archiving)
- Routine road project files, which form the majority of the R file series, have not been preserved.
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Administrative / biographical background (Historical or biographical information about the creator of the record and the context of its creation)
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The Roads Division was created in 1968 with the new Welsh Office. It had responsibility in Wales for: road transport policy; oversight of motorway and trunk road new construction and improvement; land acquisition and management; noise insulation and compensation claims; contracts and agreements; general standards; signing; lighting; communications; technical approval of bridges; road safety; trunk road forward programme; planning; traffic studies and statistics; control of development near trunk roads; advice on road and bridge matters, and responsibility for major road improvements.
It worked closely with the Professional and Consultative Staff Unit who were responsible for the practical work. The latter Unit comprised Engineering Inspectors, Road Engineers, Project Planners, Quantity Surveyors, Architects, Road Safety Experts, Road Planners, Research Officers, Estate Officers and Legal Advisers.
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C2838/
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Welsh Office: Roads Division: Registered Files (R Series)
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