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Reference
(The unique identifier to the record described, used to order and refer to it)
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BT 330
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Title
(The name of the record)
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Third London Airport Commission: Minutes of Public Hearings
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Date
(When the record was created)
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1968-1969
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Description
(What the record is about)
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This series consists of paperback volumes recording the proceedings of the Third London Airport Commission (Roskill Commission) between November 1968 and September 1969.
The files record evidence presented by departmental experts and the larger pressure groups and focus on local site hearings and record evidence presented by a variety of groups including local authorities.
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Arrangement
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Arrangement
Numerical
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Related material
(A cross-reference to other related records)
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Transcripts of Stage V of the hearings can be found in
AT 56
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Held by
(Who holds the record)
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The National Archives, Kew
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Legal status
(A note as to whether the record being described is a Public Record or not)
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Public Record(s)
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Language
(The language of the record)
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English
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Creator(s)
(The creator of the record)
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Third London Airport Commission, 1968-1971
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Physical description
(The amount and form of the record)
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29 papers
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Access conditions
(Information on conditions that restrict or affect access to the record)
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Open
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Immediate source of acquisition
(When and where the record was acquired from)
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From 1999 Department of the Environment, Transport and the Regions
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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
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Litigation
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Air transport
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Custodial history
(Describes where and how the record has been held from creation to transfer to The National Archives)
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Transferred from the Board of Trade in 1970, to the Department of the Environment, then to the Department of Transport in 1976 and then to the Department of the Environment, Transport and the Regions in 1997.
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Accumulation dates
(The dates the record was accumulated)
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1968-1969
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Accruals
(Indicates whether the archive expects to receive further records in future)
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No future accruals expected
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Selection and destruction information
(Information about how the record was selected for archiving)
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The records in this series which were previously closed for 30 years have been opened under the Open Government Initiative unless otherwise stated.
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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 London Airport Commission (Roskill Commission) was a non-statutory commission announced in May 1968 by the President of the Board of Trade C. A. R. Crosland, in response to adverse public reaction over the 1967 White Paper The Third London Airport. The remit was to evaluate the need for a third London airport, and the myriad considerations incumbent upon proceeding with its construction.
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Record URL
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https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C3366/