| AdminHistory | The Planning Department was responsible for strategic planning, including the production of a Structure Plan, which involved such activities as social and population forecasting, policies regarding urban land use, agriculture, minerals and transportation and studies regarding industry, employment, population and the use of resources within the county. It was also involved, together with the District Council Planning Departments, with development control and the preparation of local plans.
The Planning Department created a photographic collection in the course of its work. |
| Description | Created by the Planning Department.
Transparencies, negatives and photographs.
Subjects: Aerial views, agriculture, airports, Barnsley, bridges, bridleways, car parks, Catcliffe, churches, coalfields, collieries, coking plants, Conisbrough Castle, country parks, County Hall Barnsley, disused railways, Doncaster, drought, East Barnsley Scheme, employment promotion, environmental improvement, exhibitions, flooding, gas treatment platform, golf courses, housing (Barnsley, Doncaster, Rotherham, Sheffield), incinerators, industrial estates, industry, landscape, listed buildings, markets minerals, motor sports, motorways, offices, parks, people, pollution, power stations, public footpaths, Rother Valley, Rotherham, schools, scrapyards, Sheffield, shops, sports centres, staff, Stocksbridge, transport, urban action, urban deprivation, viaducts, war memorials, waste disposal, watersports, waterways (Barnby Dun, Sprotborough, Doncaster, Thorne, Sheffield, Rotherham Eastwood, Kilnhurst, Cadeby Conisbrough, Swinton, Mexborough, Stainforth, East Barnsley, canal publicity), Wentworth Woodhouse, Wharncliffe Grenoside, windmills, Wortley Top Forge. |