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Ministry of Housing and Local Government and Department of the Environment: Regional...
Catalogue reference: HLG 156
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HLG 156
This series contains the files of all the regional offices, with the exception of London Regional Office, which has its own separate series. Regional offices dealt with a wide variety of work in the fields of town and country planning (including...
Full description and record details
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Reference (The unique identifier to the record described, used to order and refer to it)
- HLG 156
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Title (The name of the record)
- Ministry of Housing and Local Government and Department of the Environment: Regional Offices: Registered Files
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Date (When the record was created)
- 1946-1999
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Description (What the record is about)
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This series contains the files of all the regional offices, with the exception of London Regional Office, which has its own separate series. Regional offices dealt with a wide variety of work in the fields of town and country planning (including rights of way and historic buildings), housing and urban regeneration. The offices were also the main point of contact between the Department and the regions.
HLG 156/851-1383 relate to the public inquiry into the proposed expansion of Gatwick Airport, 1980, with an index of documents at HLG 156/860.
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Arrangement (Information about the filing sequence or logical order of the record)
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Arrangement
Files are arranged by region and by previous reference order within each region.
The Regional Offices corresponded to the standard regions which were always listed in a standard order:
- 1.- Northern.
- 2.- Yorkshire and Humberside.
- 3.- East Midlands.
- 4.- Eastern.
- 5.- London.
- 6.- South Eastern.
- 7.- South Western.
- 8.- Wales.
- 9.- West Midlands.
- 10.- North Western.
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Related material (A cross-reference to other related records)
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Files of the London Regional Office for planning and housing: AT 41 AT 88
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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)
- E file series; EMP file series; EMH file series; MTF file series; N file series; NW file series; SE file series; SER file series; SW file series; WM file series; YH 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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Creator(s) (The creator of the record)
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- Department for Communities and Local Government, 2006-2018
- Department of the Environment, 1970-1997
- Department of the Environment, Transport and the Regions, 1997-2001
- Ministry of Housing and Local Government, Regional Offices, 1951-1970
- Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government, 2018-2021
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Physical description (The amount and form of the record)
- 1440 file(s)
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Access conditions (Information on conditions that restrict or affect access to the record)
- Open unless otherwise stated
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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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Custodial history (Describes where and how the record has been held from creation to transfer to The National Archives)
- Transferred in 1997 to the Department of the Environment, Transport, and the Regions.
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Accumulation dates (The dates the record was accumulated)
- 1954-1979
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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)
- Files selected for preservation deal with regional office input into the formulation of policy that is either of an unusual nature or is particularly illustrative of the regional offices' functions.
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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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When the Ministry of Housing and Local Government was established in 1951, the regional offices inherited from its predecessor departments were retained and re-organised. A subsequent process of centralisation was reversed in the 1960s, and the Labour Government in 1964 created six regional offices, which were added to in 1976 with the creation of regional offices for Eastern and South Eastern regions. They continued to exist in a recognisable form until 1994.
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C8851/
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