BEDFORD RURAL DISTRICT - PLANS

When these plans were received they already had original plan numbers, but there were four series, each starting from number one. In order to use the original numbers the plans were given a stroke number first; thus:

RDBP 1/1 - 1520 covers the period 1905 - 1930

RDBP 2/1 - 1236 covers the period 1931 - mid July 1938

RDBP 3/1 - 1100 covers the period mid July 1938 - May 1948

RDBP 4/1 - 179 covers the period May 1948 - Jan 1949

Those plans later than 1948 are still kept by Bedford Rural District Council

A fifth series, RDBP 5/3 - 16, covers those plans which were neither marked with reference numbers nor the dates

RDBP 5/1 and 2 are reference books kept by the Council toplans now catalogued as RDBP 2/ and RDBP 3/. They are arranged in alphabetical order of applicant but are incomplete

POST 1948 PLANS FOR THE OLD BEDFORD BOROUGH, BEDFORD RURAL DISTRICT, AND KEMPSTON URBAN DISTRICT COUNCIL PLANNING DEPARTMENTS.

Plans from 1949 onwards have been microfilmed, and the full microfilm is at the Goldington Road Planning Office of the North Bedfordshire Borough Council.

The plans (once microfilmed) were sent on to this Record Office for samples to be selected for ultimate preservation, and for the remainder to be destroyed. Those kept have not been listed, and by arrangement with the head of the present Building Control Section (see N.B.B.C. corres. 1983 47,48) they must not be produced to the public for 30 years.

All enquiries must go to the N.B.B.C Planning Office, tel. 67422 ext. 428.