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Ministry of Land and Natural Resources: Natural Resources Planning Unit: Registered...
Catalogue reference: JH 7
What's it about?
JH 7
The files relate to water supply, reservoirs, barrage schemes including the Thames Barrier, inland waterways, ministerial responsibility for water, and the question of public ownership of water. Some files were re-registered to the KW series from...
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Reference (The unique identifier to the record described, used to order and refer to it)
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JH 7
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Title (The name of the record)
- Ministry of Land and Natural Resources: Natural Resources Planning Unit: Registered Files (KW Series)
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Date (When the record was created)
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1964-1967
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Description (What the record is about)
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The files relate to water supply, reservoirs, barrage schemes including the Thames Barrier, inland waterways, ministerial responsibility for water, and the question of public ownership of water. Some files were re-registered to the KW series from the KG series: JH 5
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Arrangement (Information about the filing sequence or logical order of the record)
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Arrangement
Arranged alpha-numerically in former reference order by transfer.
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Related material (A cross-reference to other related records)
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WS series files relating to water can be found in HLG 127
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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)
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KW series
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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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- Ministry of Housing and Local Government, Water Services Division, 1967-1970
- Ministry of Land and Natural Resources, Natural Resources Planning Unit, 1965-1967
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Physical description (The amount and form of the record)
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21 files and flat sheets
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Access conditions (Information on conditions that restrict or affect access to the record)
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Subject to 30 year closure
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Immediate source of acquisition (When and where the record was acquired from)
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From 1998 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
- Resources
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Accruals (Indicates whether the archive expects to receive further records in future)
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Series is accruing
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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 Natural Resources Planning Unit of the Ministry of Land and Natural Resources was created in 1965. Certain functions relating to water were transferred from the Ministry of Housing and Local Government to the Minister of Land and Natural Resources. The Minister was brought in to share duties in relation to national water policy imposed by the Water Resources Act 1963, and thereafter became responsible for the Water Resources Board and related functions. With the demise of the Ministry in 1967, responsibility for water reverted to the Water Services Division of the Ministry of Housing and Local Government.
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9961/
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