| Description | Minute volumes indexed. The minutes are printed and signed by the committee Chairman. The volumes are in the uniformly titled minute volumes. The minutes include detailed reports of the committee to the Council; information relating to the acquisition of land bought purchased as part of each respective town planning scheme; some information relating to staffing and salaries; some accounts and statements of income and expenditure; some information relating to industrial development; details of road building and street widening works; information relating to the provision of recreation grounds and parks; details of compensation granted to property owners, businesses and tenants affected by the proposed schemes; and related correspondence and papers. Many of the minutes refer to building plan numbers that can be referred to in conjunction with the registers of deposited plans in the archives search room area, although not all the plans in the registers survive (please ask a member of staff for details). There are written specifications and reports detailing proposed new housing developments to be undertaken in accordance with town planning guidelines, for example the Pineapple Farm Estate (see minutes of meeting of 5 December 1916, minute 755, in BCC/1/BL/1/1/2). There is also information relating to the central areas of Birmingham (with particular reference to the Special Housing Inquiry, 1916) such as schedules of dilapidated property to be demolished. One of these reports for presented at a meeting of 13 July 1917 detailed the committee's concerns of the ejectment of soldiers' families from their homes on the Sutton Estate, without any suitable accommodation being provided for them, and the lack of accommodation for munition workers recently moved into the city (see minutes 893a - 894 in BCC/1/BL/1/1/2). |