Council for the Principality Records,

Papers, 1974-1984, of the Council for the Principality, including: consultation documents and other papers on legislation and government policy, including environment, food, transport, housing and public health, 1976-1983; minutes and correspondence of the Council, 1974-1984, including correspondence with other bodies; and Welsh Consultative Council on Local Government Finance minutes and correspondence, 1978-1982.

The Council for the Principality was established by the Association of District Councils in 1974, in response to the reorganization of local government, which involved the creation of new District Councils. The Council's role was to co-ordinate the work of the District Councils, thereby in effect taking over many of the responsibilities of the Association of Welsh Local Authorities, which was dissolved. It met in Cardiff from May 1974 until it was superseded by the Council for Welsh Districts in April 1983. There was a degree of administrative continuity between these two bodies, as a result of which some of the papers in the archive date from after the Council for the Principality's dissolution. The Council was involved in the Welsh Consultative Council on Local Government Finance between 1978 and 1982.

Arranged into the following: consultative documents; management files; "class P" (classification not explained); Welsh Consultative Council on Local Government Finance; and miscellanea. The file reference numbers employed by the Council have been retained in this list.

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Deposited by the Association of District Councils, Cardiff, 1985.

The Council for the Principality was established by the Association of District Councils in 1974, in response to the reorganization of local government, which involved the creation of new District Councils. The Council's role was to co-ordinate the work of the District Councils, thereby in effect taking over many of the responsibilities of the Association of Welsh Local Authorities, which was dissolved. It met in Cardiff from May 1974 until it was superseded by the Council for Welsh Districts in April 1983. There was a degree of administrative continuity between these two bodies, as a result of which some of the papers in the archive date from after the Council for the Principality's dissolution. The Council was involved in the Welsh Consultative Council on Local Government Finance between 1978 and 1982.

Title supplied from contents of fonds.

A hard copy of the catalogue is available at the National Library of Wales.

January 2003

Compiled by David Moore for the ANW project. The following source was consulted in the compilation of this description: NLW, Schedule, Council for the Principality Papers.

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