VPRS 8348 Card Index to Appeal Files, Planning

Full description

This series was created to provide access to planning appeal files.

Contents
Each card has the name of the municipality written at the top. Entries may be recorded on both sides of cards and, where there is more than one card for a municipality, the cards are numbered sequentially. Entries are arranged in columns which generally do not have headings and which record the address of the property, the appellant's name, the intended use of the property and the appeal number.

In the custody of the AAT the cards were stored in a single, two row index card table. Alphabetical groups of cards were separated and identified by tagged divider cards. Many of these divider cards were either missing tags or absent altogether.
A number of index cards were also missing. It appears that they were removed at an unknown time to allow room for the creation of new cards. Card 12 for City of Prahran, for example, bears the note, "Cards 1 - 11 in draw". The location of the missing cards or the draw referred to has not been determined.

Date Range
The commencement date for this series is uncertain. The cards in custody have a clear contents date range of 1976 to 1989. Entries on the cards dated up to 1983 appear to have been typed at the same time and provide access to file numbers for the period 1976 to 1983. This would indicate that the series may have commenced to be created in 1983. In 1981, when VPRS 3153 was first registered, it was known that an earlier index to appeal files existed but had been retained by the Town Planning Appeals Tribunal. That index has not been located and its relationship to this series is unknown.

Subsequent Series
From July 1989 the AAT employed a computer based case management system known as Courtlink. From that time the manual registers and index ceased to be created, all inquiries being directed through the computer data base.

A computer output index is produced annually and has been transferred into archival custody as VPRS 8375 Index To Appeal Files [Computer Output Index].

VPRS 8375 is the subsequent series.