| AdminHistory | The Corporation acted, for the large part, as an overseeing body. Once it had developed the design briefs and sent them out to tender its role became one of overseeing the work of the various developers, contractors and consultants. Ravenseft was the developer appointed to build the Regional Centre. Development of the centre was given Stage A approval in 1972 by the Scottish Office. |
| ScopeandContent | This subseries consists of general files relating to the development of the Regional Centre (and the town centre around it) and the occasional specific project within it, such as the placement and location of advertising boards.
1. Regional Centre Programme, (map/plan) 01/02/1973 - 01/02/1973
2. Regional Centre - Project Proposals Submissions & Approvals, SDD and Local Authorities. Architects' file, 09/03/1972 - 13/03/1973
3. Town Centre project. Proposed Submission and approach correspondence with SDD and Local Authorities, Architects' file, 01/09/1971 - 15/02/1978
4. Regional Centre. Approach for Institutional Finance, Technical Administration file, 28/01/1972 - 11/12/1980
5. Regional Centre - Minutes of Co - ordinating meetings. Architects' file 24/01/1972 - 05/06/1972
6. Regional Centre - Minutes of Co-ordinating meetings. 25/08/1972 - 23/03/1973
7. Regional Centre - Almondvale Provision of Public Toilets. Architects' file 12/06/1973 - 06/09/1984
8. Regional Centre. Advertising, Technical Administration file, 25/01/1978 - 11/10/1985
9. Regional Centre - Almondvale Facilities for the disabled. Architects' file 11/11/1977 - 03/11/1978
10. Regional Centre - Site loading. Architects' file, 13/02/1979 - 24/11/1982
11. Almondvale South - Development zone. Architects' file, 26/03/1980 - 12/10/1983
12. Almondvale North (Riverside Zone) Trim Course, Engineering file, 28/08/1980 - 07/11/1980
13. Almondvale East, Architects' file, 29/05/1981 - 14/10/1983
14. Almondvale East Access Road, Engineering file, 17/06/1981 - 30/11/1983
Engineering files generally relate to the installation of services, such as sewers, manholes, gas, electricity and structural information on buldings. They can also include correspondence with statutory authorities (such as Lothian Regional Council, which was responsible for sewers); papers on costs and materials (quantity surveying); copies of architects instructions, certificates of completions; maps/plans; invoices and other financial documentation and any other papers as necessary.
For the building of projects overseen by the Corporation, Architects files include 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 on the project; 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. Administration files can also include general policy, such as papers presented to Corporation Board Meetings for approval of policy, and the recording of decisions in extracts of board minutes. |