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Speaking as someone who is both an archivist and an architectural historian, building plans are a seriously underrated and sometimes underused resource. Several offices (including Birmingham, Gloucestershire and Bedfordshire) have developed selection criteria: they must speak for themselves about the utility of their schemes. My own approach would be to remove about 90 percent of the trivial files for extensions etc (keeping just a small sample) but to keep all the files for new buildings. The bulk can be daunting but these are one of the foundation collections for an understanding of local topography and development history.

Nick Kingsley
(A personal, not an official view)

From: Archivists, conservators and records managers. <[log in to unmask]>
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Sent: Wed Dec 02 08:49:07 2009
Subject: Building Control files

Our building control service is potentially offering to us some 50,000 building control files. I would be interested in hearing from anyone who has developed criteria for the selection of such files for permanent retention.

Regards

Malcolm Barr-Hamilton

Borough Archivist

 

Tower Hamlets Local History Library and Archives

Bancroft Library

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London E1 4DQ

020 7364 1290

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