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New Towns Committee (Reith Committee): Minutes, Papers and Report
Catalogue reference: HLG 84
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HLG 84
Minutes of meetings, circulated papers and published and unpublished material submitted in evidence to the committee. There are also files containing correspondence and papers of both the committee and the Ministry of Town and Country Planning.
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HLG 84
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Title (The name of the record)
- New Towns Committee (Reith Committee): Minutes, Papers and Report
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Date (When the record was created)
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1945-1947
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Description (What the record is about)
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Minutes of meetings, circulated papers and published and unpublished material submitted in evidence to the committee. There are also files containing correspondence and papers of both the committee and the Ministry of Town and Country Planning.
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For records of the New Towns Division see
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- The National Archives, Kew
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English
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- New Towns Committee, 1945-1947
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23 file(s)
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The Committee was set up by the Minister of Town and Country Planning and the Secretary of State for Scotland under the chairmanship of Lord Reith "to consider the general questions of the establishment, development, organisation and administration that will arise in the promotion of New Towns in furtherance of a policy of planned decentralisation from congested urban areas; and in accordance therewith to suggest guiding principles on which such Towns should be established and developed as self-contained and balanced communities for work and living".
The interim, second interim and final report of the Committee were published in 1946 as Command Papers 6759, 6794 and 6876, respectively.
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C8779/
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