Catalogue description Property Services Agency: Proposed Official History: Collected Source Material

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Reference: CM 68
Title: Property Services Agency: Proposed Official History: Collected Source Material
Description:

This series contains files which cover varied aspects of the history of the Property Services Agency (PSA) including its role, operations, organisation and personnel
Date: 1852-1994
Held by: The National Archives, Kew
Legal status: Public Record(s)
Language: English
Creator:

Department of the Environment, 1970-1997

Ministry of Public Building and Works, 1962-1970

Ministry of Works, 1943-1962

Ministry of Works and Buildings, 1940-1942

Ministry of Works and Planning, 1942-1943

Office of Works, 1851-1940

Property Holdings, PSA Services, 1990-1995

Property Services Agency, 1972-1990
Physical description: 44 file(s)
Access conditions: Open
Immediate source of acquisition:

From 2020 Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government
Custodial history: Property Services Agency 1987-1993, Property Holdings, PSA Services 1990-1993, Department of the Environment 1993-1997, Department of Environment, Transport and the Regions 1997-2001, Department of Transport, Local Government and the Regions 2001-2002, Office of the Deputy Prime Minister 2002-2006, Department for Communities and Local Government 2006-
Selection and destruction information: Files which are routine, or which are duplicate material known to be better exemplified elsewhere, have been recommended for destruction. Some papers develop policy in their own right and others are special interest by virtue of being purposefully written or collated historical accounts.
Accruals: Series is accruing.
Administrative / biographical background:

Between around 1987 and its demise in 1993 the Property Service Agency (PSA)/Property Holdings PSA Services strove to amass material to support the writing of an Official History to supplement 'The History of the King's Works', which had taken the story up to 1963. The intention was to document the latter part of the history (1964-1993) to give earlier background and to expand some areas that had not been covered. However no such history was commissioned and the records in this series are those retrieved when the PSA Records Office was closed.

In 1962 the newly formed Ministry of Public Building and Works acquired the responsibility of monitoring the building industry as well as taking over the works departments from the War Office, Air Ministry and Admiralty. In 1970 the Ministry was absorbed into the Department of the Environment (DoE), although from 1972 most former Works functions were transferred to the largely autonomous Property Services Agency (PSA), which existed from 1972-1993.

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