| AdminHistory | As well as standard housing, there was a number of special categories of housing that the Corporation had to provide. Special categories included wheelchair accessible housing, sheltered housing for the elderly, supported housing for the mentally and physically disabled and a number of community houses to support specific issues, such as young teenaged, homelessness.
When, during the 1980s, there was a moratorium on local authority house buidling, special category housing was the only type of housing in which the Corporation was allowed to invest heavily. |
| ScopeandContent | 47 architects, engineering and administration files relating to the provision of special category housing in Livingston.
Architects files contain a variety of papers including: architects instructions, which comprise specifications and briefs for work to be done and materials to be used; correspondence and minutes of meetings with contractors relating to the work they have been employed for; copies of invoices, contracts, certificates of completion and other financial papers; extracts of board minutes (relating to policy and approvals); internal memoranda; maps and plans relating to area of work and any other papers as necessary.
Administration files include: correspondence with contractors regarding the tendering process for specific jobs, and other administrative papers such as the provision of insurance documents; papers presented to the Board on specific issues, and extracts of boards minutes regarding policy and approval of decisions made by Chief Officers; correspondence with the Scottish Office mainly regarding approvals of expenditure; internal memoranda, and any other papers as necessary.
Engineering files can contain internal memos and memoranda; files on costs and materials (quantity surveying); copies of architects instructions, certificates of completions; maps/plans; technical briefs and specifications for services such as sewers and electrical supply; invoices and other financial documentation and any other papers as necessary.
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