VALUATION DEPARTMENT: ARCHITECT'S DRAWINGS

Identity Statement

Reference code(s)	: LCC/VA/DD
Held at	: London Metropolitan Archives   Click here to find out how to view this collection at https://www.cityoflondon.gov.uk/lma ›
Full title	: VALUATION DEPARTMENT: ARCHITECT'S DRAWINGS
Date(s)	: 1889-1965
Level of description	: Collection View parent record
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 & 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.

Finding aids:

Please see online catalogues at: http://search.lma.gov.uk/opac_lma/index.htm

Archival Information

Archival history:

Immediate source of acquisition:

Acquired with the records of its parent body, the London County Council.

Allied Materials

Related material:

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

Archivist's note:

Rules or conventions:
Compiled in compliance with General International Standard Archival Description, ISAD(G), second edition, 2000; National Council on Archives Rules for the Construction of Personal, Place and Corporate Names, 1997.

Date(s) of descriptions:
April to June 2009