VPRS 8376 Register of Planning Appeals

This series comprises registers of appeals created by VA 598 Town Planning Appeals Tribunal from 1969 to 1981, VA 1408 Planning Appeals Board from 1981 to 1987, and the Planning Division of VA 2659 Administrative Appeals Tribunal from 1987 to July 1989. The registers served to allocate appeal numbers, that is, the next unused appeal number in the register was allocated to the next received appeal or application. They also provided a summary record of the progress and results of appeals and controlled the arrangement of planning appeal files. The determinations/decisions were filed in VPRS 15563 Register of Determinations Planning Appeals.Subsequent SeriesIn normal administrative practice the Administrative Appeals Tribunal(AAT) had no need of a manual register or index to appeal files from mid 1989. From that time, all AAT appeal cases were registered and accessed by use of a computer case management system known as Courtlink. All inquires relating to appeal files were undertaken by identifying particular files through the Courtlink system.In 1991 the Records Disposal Authority for records of the Administrative Appeals Tribunal was issued by the Keeper of Public Records as Public Record Office Standard (PROS) 91/10. The standard required that hard copy indexes to appeal files were to be produced annually. The indexes were specified to be produced, primarily, to allow access by researchers to appeal files transferred into archival custody.It was not possible to transfer the control records normally created by AAT, that is, the computer system, into archival custody. The hard copy indexes, which relate to appeal files of all divisions (that is, the Planning, General and Taxation Divisions) of the AAT, have been transferred as VPRS 8375 Index to Appeal Files [Computer Output Index]. The indexes include summary information relating to all appeal files, not just the permanent sample of files. The indexes, while not created as registers, and therefore not subsequent series to this series, may none the less be used to provided information on appeals the files for which have been destroyed.