| Description | Large bundle of papers and correspondence relating to Prescot Urban District Council's slum clearance schemes 4 - 15. Includes: newspaper cuttings of clearance notices; correspondence and papers from the Ministry of Health; draft resolutions for the slum clearances; clearance schedules signed by the Prescot Urban District Council's Medical Officer of Health; Statements of Number of Persons of the Working Classes Occupying the Buildings due for clearance, signed by the Medical Officer of Health; provisional statements proposing numbers and sizes of new dwellings; details of houses in the clearance areas, including owners and numbers of occupants; procedure relating to clearance orders; extracts of Prescot Urban District Council and Prescot U.D.C. Housing Committee meeting minutes (14 July 1936); extracts of Prescot U.D.C. Slum Clearance Committee meeting minutes (24 March 1936); clearance orders; plans showing clearance areas 14 and 15; objections to clearance orders; Requisition for Information forms regarding properties in the clearance areas and correspondence relating to these; copies of public notices of clearance orders; and papers for public inquiry (24 November 1936). |