| AdminHistory | The various titles of the Plans Sub-committee and dates of their existence can be summarised as follows:
" Plan Sub-Committee, from January 1865 (See CA-HWY for reports submitted to the Highway Committee).
" Works and Plan Sub-Committee, from November 1865 (See CA-HWY for reports submitted to the Highway Committee).
" Works and Plan and Sewerage Sub-Committee, from November 1873 (See CA-HWY for reports submitted to the Highway Committee).
" Plan and Office Sub-Committee, May 1874 - July 1922 (See CA-PTP/1-14 for minutes and papers).
" Plans Sub-Committee, July 1922 - March 1974 (See also CA-PTP/15 - 89 for minutes and papers).
" Development Plans Sub-Committee, April 1974 - May 1982 (See CA-PAN/1-12 for minutes and papers).
" Plans Sub-Committee, June 1982 - May 1987 (See CA-PAN/13-20 for minutes and papers, June 1982 - December 1986; and CA-PTP/96 for minutes and papers, January - May 1987).
" North, South-East and South-West Sub-Committees*, May 1987 - May 1993 (See CA-PAT/6-47 for minutes and papers including schedules/lists of planning decisions, May 1987 - April 1991, filed amongst the Planning and Transportation Committee minutes; CA-PED/1-18 for minutes and papers including lists of planning decisions, May 1991 - May 1993, filed amongst the Planning and Economic Development Programme Committee minutes).
*From May 1986 - April 1987, before the formation of these particular sub-committees, separate North-East, North-West, South-East and South-West Sub-Committees had been in existence, which, for a short time, ran alongside the Plans Sub-Committee (See CA-PAT/1-5 for minutes and papers of these sub-committees, filed amongst the Planning and Transportation Committee minutes).
The Development Plans Sub (later Plans Sub) Committee was a sub-committee of the Environmental Planning (previously Town Planning [prior to September 1973], later: Environment and Planning Programme [from June 1983], Planning and Transportation Programme [from May 1986], Planning and Economic Development Programme [from May 1991]) Committee. The Town Planning Committee, itself a sub-committee of the Highways and Sewers Committee, was originally known as the Town Planning Sub-Committee. From 1946 it became the Town Planning Committee with its own Plans Sub-Committee.
Minutes for predecessors of the Development Plans Sub (later Plans Sub) Committee survive from 1874 (See CA-PTP/1-97). It was known as the Plan and Office Sub-Committee, from May 1874 - July 1922, before adopting the title Plans Sub-Committee in July 1922. In May 1987, under further reorganisation of the Planning and Transportation Programme, the Development Plans Sub (later Plans Sub) Committee was broken up into the North, South-East, and South-West Sub Committees (Note: Separate North-East, North-West, South-East and South-West Sub Committees had been in existence from May 1986 - April 1987 alongside the Plans Sub-Committee).
Prior to 1874, reports for predecessors of the Plans Sub-Committee can be found amongst the minutes of the Highways and Sewerage Committee, September 1864 - May 1968 (See CA-HWY). The Highway Committee was appointed by the Council on 7 September 1864 with Alderman John Webster as chairman and they met weekly on a Friday. On 11 November 1864 the Highway Committee appointed a new 'Works Sub-Committee' which submitted reports on all new works to the Committee from 18 November 1864. A 'Plan Sub-Committee' was also established (to examine plans of new buildings to be erected in the borough) which submitted reports to the Highway Committee from 6 January 1865. On 10 November 1865 the Plan Sub-Committee and Works Sub-Committee merged to form a new 'Works and Plan Sub-Committee', set up to examine and report on all new works and the plans of new buildings. This sub-committee altered its title to the 'Works and Plan and Sewerage Sub-Committee' by 28 November 1873.
In 1891, the Highways Committee and the Sewerage and Rivers Committee were formerly amalgamated. In 1893, at the time of the granting of city status to Sheffield, it was the Highways and Sewerage Committee (situated in the City Engineer's Department) who had responsibility for the erection of new buildings and carrying out improvements to the frontages of buildings, etc.
In 1908, the City Engineer's Department was divided and a Surveyor of the Highways and a City Engineer appointed. The Surveyor of the Highways was assigned responsibility for the highways and sewers, with the City Engineer given responsibility for architectural and engineering work (although architectural responsibility soon passed to the new post of City Architect).
In 1909, with the passing of the Housing and Town Planning Bill, town planning powers were given to the council and an Improvements Committee became responsible for this area. In 1914, the City Engineer's Department was further reorganised and a new improvements and planning department was set up. Town planning powers were transferred to the Highways Committee in 1930. |
| Description | The minutes include planning application schedules, detailing building and street plans and applications (deposited under legislation such as Town and Country Planning Orders 1933 and 1946, Town and Country Planning Acts 1947, 1962 - 1971, the Town and Country Planning [Control of Advertisements] Regulation Act 1969, Restriction of Ribbon Development Acts 1935 and 1943, and the Thermal Insulation [Industrial Buildings] Act 1957). These schedules show the number, date and nature of the application, the location, the name of the applicant and whether each application was granted, refused, withdrawn, etc. The minutes also include reports submitted to the committee regarding specific planning applications (with associated correspondence and, occasionally, copies of plans). |
| RelatedMaterial | Related items at Sheffield Archives:
" Minutes of Sheffield City Council: Development Plans Sub (later Plans Sub) Committee, Apr 1974 - Dec 1986 (CA-PAN/1-20).
" Minutes of Sheffield City Council: Planning and Transportation (formerly Environment and Planning Programme, formerly Environmental Planning, formerly Town Planning) Committee, May 1986 - Apr 1991 (Includes minutes of the North, South East and South West sub-committees) (CA-PAT/1-47).
" Minutes of Sheffield City Council: Planning and Economic Development (formerly the Planning and Transportation) Programme Committee, May 1991 - May 1993 (CA-PED/1-18).
" Minutes of Sheffield City Council: Plans Sub (previously Plan and Office Sub, later Development Plans Sub, Plans Sub, later North, South-East and South-West) and Town Planning (later Environmental Planning, later Environment and Planning, later Planning and Transportation) Committees, May 1874 - Mar 1990 (CA-PTP/1-97).
" Minutes of the Highways and Sewerage Committee, Sep 1864 - May 1968 (CA-HWY).
" Draft minutes of the Town Planning Committee, Aug 1944 - May 1951 (CA-TPC).
" Draft minutes of the Town Planning Committee and Plans Sub-Committee, Jun 1951 - Jun 1971 (CA 646/35-53).
" Minutes of the Town Planning Committee (printed and signed, without schedules), Aug 1944 - Mar 1974 (CA137/38-40).
" Manuscript minutes of the Town Planning Sub-Committee, May 1910 - Jan 1921 (CA530/38).
" Draft minutes of the Plans Sub-Committee, Nov 1947 - May 1951 (duplicate minutes but with some annotations) (CA184).
" Minutes of the Highways and Sewerage Committee, Works Sub-Committee, Town Planning Sub-Committee, Town Planning Committee (from 1946), Special and Visiting Sub-Committee (from 1935), Jan 1934 - Oct 1965 (CA475/1-16).
" Minutes of the Environmental Planning Committee, Sep 1973 - Apr 1986 (CA-EPC/1-17).
" Building plans and registers: Sheffield Borough and Metropolitan District, 1864 - date (CA205-214):
o Registers of building plans: Sheffield Borough, 1864 - 1971 (CA205).
o Building plans: Sheffield Borough, 1864 - date (CA206).
o Registers of building plans deposited with Norton Rural District Council and its predecessor, 1885 - 1934 (CA207).
o Building plans deposited with Norton Rural District Council and its predecessor, 1885 - 1934 (CA208).
o Registers of building plans deposited with Handsworth Urban District Council, 1900 - 1921 (CA209).
o Building plans deposited with Handsworth Urban District Council, 1899 - 1921 (CA210).
o Registers of building plans deposited with Rotherham Rural District Council relating to Tinsley, 1896 - 1911 (CA211).
o Registers of building plans deposited with Wortley Rural District Council and its predecessor relating to Hillsborough, 1877 - 1902 (CA212).
o Building plans deposited with Wortley Rural District Council and its predecessor relating to the Wincobank area, 1878 - 1901 (CA213).
o Registers of building plans relating to Handsworth, Tinsley and Norton Within, 1885 - 1911 (CA214).
" Registers of planning applications (Sheffield City Council Planning Division), 1948 - 1977 (CA 773). |