IDENTITY STATEMENT
Reference code(s): LCC/VA/DD
Held at: London Metropolitan Archives
Title: VALUATION DEPARTMENT: ARCHITECT'S DRAWINGS
Date(s): 1889-1965
Level of description: Collection
Extent: 32.33 linear metres
Name of creator(s): LCC | London County Council x London County Council
CONTEXT
Administrative/Biographical history:
The London County Council's housing work was administered by the Housing and Public Health Committee. The Valuer, with the Valuation Department, was responsible for the acquisition of property and maintenance and management of the Council's dwellings.
CONTENT
Scope and content/abstract:
Records of the London County Council Valuation Department, 1889-1965, comprising architect's drawings of properties owned or acquired by the Metropolitan Board of Works and passed on to the London County Council. The properties were purchased as part of schemes of work such as street improvements, bridge, tunnel and tramway construction and building housing estates. The properties were subsequently leased out. The plans were submitted to the MBW or LCC by tenants seeking approval for intended development or renovation.
Most of the plans show properties situated in Queen Victoria Street, Chelsea Embankment, Clerkenwell Road, Northumberland Avenue, Charing Cross Road, Shaftesbury Avenue, Rosebery Avenue and the Holborn and Strand areas. They generally show dwellings, shops, factories, churches, public houses, community centres, doctor's surgeries and local council offices.
Please note that a full index of these plans is available in hard copy in the LMA Information Area.
ACCESS AND USE
Language/scripts of material: English
System of arrangement:
LCC/VA/DD/R: Rolled drawings; LCC/VA/DD: Plans and drawings.
Conditions governing access:
Available for general access.
Conditions governing reproduction:
Copyright: City of London.
Physical characteristics:
Fit
Finding aids:
Please see online catalogues at: http://search.lma.gov.uk/opac_lma/index.htm
ARCHIVAL INFORMATION
Appraisal, destruction and scheduling information:
Accruals:
Archival history:
Immediate source of acquisition:
Acquired with the records of its parent body, the London County Council.
ALLIED MATERIALS
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Publication note:
For further information on the history of the LCC please see Achievement: A Short History of the London County Council by W Eric Jackson (1965), LMA Library reference 18.0 1965, The London County Council 1938, LMA Library reference 18.7 SER 4, and The Youngest County: A description of London as a county and its public services, 1951, LMA Library reference 18.0 1951.
DESCRIPTION NOTES
Note:
Date(s) of descriptions: April to June 2009