Ministry of Works and Buildings: Reconstruction of Town and Country Advisory Panels...

This series contains the papers of a number of bodies established by the Ministry of Works and Buildings to advise the Ministers on problems of post-war reconstruction of town and country. These bodies included the Interdepartmental Advisory Committee on Reconstruction (1941), the Consultative Panel on Physical Reconstruction (1941), the Advisory Committee on Reconstruction (1942), the '1940 Council' and the Reconstruction Areas Group.

An Interdepartmental Advisory Committee on Reconstruction and a Consultative Panel on Physical Reconstruction were also set up in 1941 by the Minister of Works and Buildings on the recommendation of the War Cabinet Committee on Reconstruction. The committee was to help him in preparing a scheme of work preparatory to the formulation of planning machinery, to advise him on the inter-relationship between parts of this work and enquiries already contemplated or in progress, and to suggest how the various parts of the work could be best undertaken. The panel was a body of men and women with special knowledge or experience of subjects arising in physical planning and reconstruction who could be freely consulted by the minister. A special Reconstruction Areas Group composed partly of members of the panel was also formed to provide expert advice on problems involved in the redevelopment of damaged urban areas.