Architecture and Civic Design Department

Architecture & Civic Design Department (1966), formerly Architectural & Planning Department (1950)

Development plans, planning reports and related papers, 1945 - 1967; Survey reports and written statements concerning Comprehensive Development Areas, 1959 - 1971; Minutes of evidence of public inquiries, 1953 - 1964; Plans of civic buildings, including the City Chambers and the Mitchell Library, 1878 - 1956; Miscellaneous reports, 1908 - 1951; Papers relating to planning schemes and inquiries, 1915 - 1946; Planning maps (including properties damaged or destroyed by enemy action, 1941), 1912 - 1946 and undated; Photographic negatives (including glass negatives), lantern slides and prints, mainly of Corporation housing, but also including illustrations of slum housing conditions and of town planning outwith Glasgow, c1910 - c1976.

Before the Second World War the function of City Architect was performed by the Master of Works as City Engineer. In 1951 the first City Architect and Planning Officer was appointed, as head of what was to become the Architectural and Planning Department. In 1960 his post title changed to City Architect and Director of Planning, and in 1966 a separate Director of Planning was appointed. The post of City Architect and his Department (as Architecture and Civic Design) continued thereafter until local government reorganisation in 1975.

[Description taken from Scottish Archive Network]

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D-AP9/22-52 is a later deposit, 1989.

Descriptive list available at Glasgow City Archives; database of photographs, some of which are also available in digitised form at: http://www.mitchelllibrary.org/virtualmitchell/index.php

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