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Ministry of Housing and Local Government and predecessors: Establishment Division...

Catalogue reference: HLG 124

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HLG 124

This series contains files reflecting the responsibilities of the Establishment Divisions for the internal administration of the Ministries of Town and Country Planning, Local Government Planning, and Housing and Local Government. These include...

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HLG 124

Title
Ministry of Housing and Local Government and predecessors: Establishment Division and Establishment and Organisation Division: Registered Files (EST Series)
Date

1928-1985

Description

This series contains files reflecting the responsibilities of the Establishment Divisions for the internal administration of the Ministries of Town and Country Planning, Local Government Planning, and Housing and Local Government. These include files on the rearrangement of the functions of the Ministries of Health, and Town and Country Planning; files relating to the organization and complement of the Ministry of Housing and Local Government; and the organization and complement of the Welsh Offices of the Ministries of Local Government and Planning, and Housing and Local Government, and of the Central Land Board. Files dealing with Wales were transferred to the Welsh Office c 1965; those not incorporated into its record series have been placed in this series. The series includes the personal file of Evelyn Sharp, permanent secretary.

The EST series was created in 1943 on the inception of the Ministry of Town and Country Planning. In January 1951, with the addition of Local Government and public health divisions from the Ministry of Health, the Ministry was re-named the Ministry of Local Government and Planning and, in November 1951, with a new Conservative Government, the Ministry of Housing and Local Government.

In 1970 the Department of the Environment was formed from the Ministries of Housing and Local Government, Public Building and Works, and Transport. The EST series was abolished in 1972.

The files in this series reflect the responsibilities of the Establishment Divisions for internal administration of the departments, as well as, for example, files on the rearrangement of functions of the Ministries of Health, and Town and Country Planning; organisation and charts of the Ministry of Housing and Local Government at its inception; organisation and complement of the Welsh Offices the Ministries of Local Government and Planning, and Housing and Local Government, and of the Central Land Board (which in 1951 passed under the direction of the Ministry of Housing and Local Government). The series also includes the personal file of Evelyn Sharp, permanent secretary 1955-1966.

Includes some KL files re-registered to EST from JH 4

Related material

For other related files see: HLG 131

Separated material

Some files from this series were re-registered into Department of the Environment series: see

AT 50

Held by
The National Archives, Kew
Former department reference

EST file series

Legal status

Public Record(s)

Language

English

Creator(s)
  • Department of the Environment, 1970-1997
  • Ministry of Health, 1919-1968
  • Ministry of Housing and Local Government, 1951-1970
  • Ministry of Land and Natural Resources, 1964-1967
  • Ministry of Local Government and Planning, 1951-1951
  • Ministry of Town and Country Planning, 1943-1951
  • Ministry of Works, 1943-1962
  • Ministry of Works and Buildings, 1940-1942
  • Ministry of Works and Planning, 1942-1943
Physical description

378 file(s)

Access conditions

Open

Immediate source of acquisition

From 1980 Department of the Environment

Subjects
Topics
Maps and plans
Housing
Planning (Land and Property)
Local Government
Accruals

Series is accruing

Record URL
https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C8819/

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