Chapter 10.4 Civil - Westminster City Council since 1965

 10.4 Westminster City Council since 1965

From 1965 Westminster City included the old City of Westminster, and Paddington and St Marylebone.

Committee minutes, Departmental reports

Council minutes:

Westminster City Council. Minutes (signed copies), 1965-1989

Committee minutes

Car Parking Committee:

1964-1969

Children's Committee:

1966-1969

Cleansing Committee:

1964-1968

Computer Subcommittee:

1965-1972

Subcommittee, Westminster and Kensington and Chelsea Joint Committee: 1965-1972

Co-ordinating Committee:

1972-1981

Silver Jubilee Joint Subcommittee, 1976-1977

Environment Committee:

1983-1988

Establishment Licensing Subcommittee:

1986-1989 (from June 1989 see Policy and Resources, Licensing Subcommittee)

Leisure Subcommittee:

1983-1984

Establishment Committee:

1964-1973;

Establishment Subcommittee:

1965-1968

Establishment (Appointments) Subcommittee, 1964-1970

Computer Development Joint Subcommittee, 1973-197

Establishment/Management Services Committee:

1974

Finance Committee:

1964-1972

Agendas and Reports, 1965-1968

Subcommittee (Rates), 1965-1968

Supplies and Services, 1968-1972

Finance and Scrutiny Committee:

1973-1981

Financial Planning Subcommittee, 1973-1975

Investments Subcommittee, 1975-1983; (from 1984 see Policy and Resources Investments Subcommittee)

Investments Subcommittee AMP, 1986

Contracts Subcommittee, 1977-1986

Contracts Subcommittee AMP, 1985-1986

Finance and Resources Committee:

1981-1983

Subcommittees on Finance and Resources (Computer), 1981-1983

Financial Management & Personnel, 1983-1986

Financial Management and Personnel Appointments, 1985-1986

AMP 1985-1987

General Purposes Committee and Special Committee:

1964

General Purposes Committee:

1965-1969, 1975-1983

Standing Orders Subcommittee, 1964-1968

Ceremonial Subcommittee; 1964-1967

Chief Officers Subcommittee, 1965-1969

Wards and Councilors Subcommittee, 1966

Special Subcommittee re Royal Commission on Local Government, 1966

Management of Local Government, 1967

Review of Management (Special) Committee, 1968-1969

Public Relations Subcommittee, 1969-1970

Licensing Subcommittee, 1969-1977 and 1980-1984

Lottery Subcommittee reports, 1979

General Services:

1969-1972

Health Committee:

1964-1974

Highways Committee:

1969-1972

Highways and Traffic Committee:

1967-1969

Highways and Works (and Cleansing from 1981) Committee:

1973-1983

Recreation Subcommittee, 1978-1981

Housing Committee:

1964-1972-1978-1986

Housing Subcommittee, 1970-1971

Statutory Noises Subcommittee, 1978-1983

Council and Tenants Joint (Housing Management) Subcommittee, 1979-1986

(Energy) Subcommittee, 1981-1983

Private Sector Subcommittee, 1983-1986

Housing Management Committee:

1973-1978

Joint Residential Property and Housing Management Committee:

1977

Libraries Committee (formerly Public Libraries Committee):

1964-1969

Management Committee (and General Purposes 1974; 1975 onwards Management Services):

1969-1981 Coordinating (Urban Programmes) Subcommittee, 1978-1979

Budget Subcommittee, 1979-1980

Management Services (Appointments) Subcommittee, 1979-1981

Personnel Committee:

1981-1983

Planning and Development Committee:

1983-1986

Traffic and Works Subcommittee, 1985-1989

District Plan Working Party, 1985-1986

Policy Committee:

1969-1972, 1981-1984

City Hall Subcommittee, 1971

Policy Review Subcommittee, 1982-1983

Policy and Resources Committee:

1983-1990 AMP, 1985-1990

Contracts Subcommittee, AMP, 1985-1986

Financial Management and Personnel Subcommittee, 1983-1989

Financial Management and Personnel Appointments Subcommittee, 1985-1988

Financial Management and Personnel Subcommittee AMP, 1986-1987

Grants (Arts) Subcommittee, 1986

Investments Subcommittee AMP, 1987-1989

Licensing Subcommittee, (from June 1989 incorporates Entertainment Licensing and in 1990 Temporary Policy and Resources Committee) 1987-1993

New Technology Subcommittee, 1983-1989

New Technology Subcommittee AMP, 1985-1987

Rating Panel, 1984-1987

Public Control Committee:

1968-1969

Residential Property Committee:

1972-1978

Joint Working Party on Housing Action Areas, 1975-1978

Road Safety Advisory Committee:

1965-1989

Social Services Committee:

1969-1986

Grants Subcommittee, 1983-1986

Special Selection Committee:

1968-1990

Town Planning Committee:

1964-1983

Applications (formerly Notifications)Subcommittee, 1965-1979

Subcommittees on Development Plan, 1969-1971; District Plan,1980

European Architectural Heritage Year, 1973

Town Planning and Traffic Subcommittee, 1966, 1976

Traffic Committee:

1965-1967

Welfare Committee:

1964-1969

Works Committee:

1966-1972 (gaps).

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Departmental records

Education Department:

The records of primary and secondary schools throughout the City of Westminster, i.e. including the former boroughs of Paddington and St Marylebone, are at the London Metropolitan Archives, Westminster not having assumed responsibility for education until April 1990.

Engineer's Department:

File concerning Charles Wesley Memorial, Memorial Gardens, Marylebone High Street, 1969, WCC:Acc0111

Environmental Health Department, see also Public Health Department, section 11.2:

Drainage plans, 1965-1980.

Registers of drainage applications, 1965-1978, (indexed 1965-1971).

Finance Department:

General ledger, 1965-1978 (gaps).

Rate books, 1965-1971/72 (indexed by street). (Access restricted for post 1969/70 rate books). Access to ratebooks after March 1969 is only allowed with the written permission of the Director of Finance.



Planning Department:

Plans and photographs, samples of planning applicatons and conservation areas plans covering south Marylebone and Westminster south of Oxford Street, many re Piccadilly Circus area, 1965-1980's

Paddington area building control plans (sampled) and council estate, 1966.

Land Use Survey registers, 1965-1974, WCC:Acc0096

File concerning the Trafalgar Square Study, comprising plans and sketches relating to the revised layout of Trfalagar Square, including a revised road layout and traffic management system for the area, 1970, WCC:Acc0165

Public Health Department, see Environmental Health Department

Town Clerk's Department, (later, Chief Executive's, later Managing Director's):

Coroner's Court, registers of bodies in the mortuary, 1965-1983. (Access restricted) (Acc 1391) (see also Town Clerk's Department, Chapter 10.3.3) (from 1992 administered by City Solicitor's Department) Caxton Hall. Lettings books, 1965-1984 (see also Town Clerk's Department, Chapter 10.3.3)

City Treasurer's Department see Finance Department

Other Council Records:

Film of the first meeting of the new Westminster City Council, 1965.

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