Collection LMA/4070 - BARNET PLANS

29.95 linear metres

LMA/4070 1879-1986 Collection 29.95 linear metres London Borough of Barnet

This collection consists of a large number of planning applications relating to buildings in north Middlesex. They were submitted over nearly a century and kept by the planning departments of Finchley, Friern Barnet and Hendon, and after 1965, by the London Borough of Barnet.

Whenever someone wished to build a new property or make alterations to an existing building they had to submit copies of plans of the scheme to the relevant local authority for approval. This collection is made up entirely of these plans and any other documents that were submitted at the time.

The period covered by the applications, the end of the nineteenth century to the 1980s was one that saw huge changes in the areas around London. Middlesex, to the north of the capital, had been a largely rural county with few small towns during the reign of Queen Victoria, but it developed over a short period in the first decades of the new century into a sprawling suburban environment. Farms and isolated villas had, by the 1930s, given way to new roads, housing and light industry.

Received in 1998 (B98/048).

Plans submitted to the London Borough of Barnet and predecessor local authorities in Finchley, Friern Barnet and Hendon, 1879-1986. The plans show examples of a diverse range of architectural styles in domestic housing in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. There are also many shops, factories and workshops, as well as public buildings such as schools, cinemas and churches, many of which still exist today.

The files are interesting for the insight they give to the planning process, showing what was and was not acceptable from a design and structural point of view. And as many of the earlier plans are for the most part hand drawn and coloured, they can be very decorative.

The collection was reviewed over several months by a team of 5 archivists who examined and read each file. Only files considered worthy of long term retention were kept, rather than many thousands of similar applications for such things as loft extensions.

The plans have been arranged in three series, based on their origins in the planning departments of the local authorities which, after 1965, became the London Borough of Barnet: LMA/4070/01: Finchley; LMA/4070/02: Friern Barnet; LMA/4070/03: Hendon.

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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. April to June 2009 Residential buildings Architecture Buildings Non-residential buildings Town and country planning Planning control Planning decisions Planning permission Government Public administration Local government Local authorities Planning authorities Urban development Urban planning Visual materials Plans Building plans Architectural plans Planning applications London Borough of Barnet London England UK Western Europe Barnet (district) Barnet Hertfordshire Friern Barnet Middlesex Hendon Finchley Europe

Received in 1998 (B98/048).

Plans submitted to the London Borough of Barnet and predecessor local authorities in Finchley, Friern Barnet and Hendon, 1879-1986. The plans show examples of a diverse range of architectural styles in domestic housing in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. There are also many shops, factories and workshops, as well as public buildings such as schools, cinemas and churches, many of which still exist today.

The files are interesting for the insight they give to the planning process, showing what was and was not acceptable from a design and structural point of view. And as many of the earlier plans are for the most part hand drawn and coloured, they can be very decorative.

The collection was reviewed over several months by a team of 5 archivists who examined and read each file. Only files considered worthy of long term retention were kept, rather than many thousands of similar applications for such things as loft extensions.

The plans have been arranged in three series, based on their origins in the planning departments of the local authorities which, after 1965, became the London Borough of Barnet: LMA/4070/01: Finchley; LMA/4070/02: Friern Barnet; LMA/4070/03: Hendon.

Available for general access

Copyright to these records rests with the Corporation of London.

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English

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

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.

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