| Description | Bundle of papers regarding housing improvements, referred to as Area 1 (roads and land between High Street and Eccleston Street) in Prescot. Includes: a petition to the Local Government Board by the Prescot U.D.C. for a housing improvement scheme under the Housing of the Working Classes Act, 1890, and involving the clearance of areas and construction of new streets and passages in the areas of Eccleston Street, High Street and the Hope and Anchor public house (later referred to as Area 1); correspondence with the Local Government Board regarding housing improvement schemes (October - November 1900); partial draft of a document laying out 'special conditions' between Prescot U.D.C. and J. Lucas (relating to Area 1); a 'case for the opinion of Mr. O. [Octavius] Leigh Clare as to powers of the Prescot Urban District Council under scheme,' in which Mr. Leigh-Clare (a lawyer and politician) shares his view that the Council is obliged to continue with the Area 1 scheme (June 1905); sanctions from the Local Government Board for the disposal of lands and laying out of streets, approaches and communications; draft statement on value of land, with plan, in area of High Street, Atherton Street, Leyland Street and Eccleston Street (1907); report of the committee appointed to consider the value of land in Area 1 (20 September 1907); two alternative draft copies of a building lease, between Prescot U.D.C. and Mr. William Beesley, of a plot of freehold land on the east side of Leyland Street, for a term of 999 years (1909); draft agreement for the sale of land in Leyland Street and High Street, Prescot, to Mr. William Beesley (1909); draft agreement for the sale of a plot of land on the east side of Layland Street, Prescot, to Mr. William John Lucas (1910); series of correspondence with William Hutchen, solicitor, regarding the sale of land to Mr. Lucas (March - April 1910) with accompanying notes and calculations; timeline, possible partial, of dealings with Councillor Beesley (1909 - 1910) regarding sale of land; query from Prescot U.D.C. regarding property development, and also a further copy of the query with a reply from Arthur J. Lees, Urban District Councils Association, Westminster (21 February 1911); two draft copies of 'Case for Opinion of Counsel' regarding the Area 1 scheme and sale of land within it (1911); receipt, signed by William Beesley, of payment from Prescot U.D.C. of £82 as compensation and purchase of land in High Street, Prescot (7 September 1911); draft notes and supplements for conveyance by W. Beesley to Prescot U.D.C. (5 October 1911); and 'Acknowledgment as to light to new window by Mrs. Louisa Lord,' (March 1906) at 40 High Street, Prescot, with a sketch of the property and subsequent correspondence between Mr. Appleton (a later owner of the property) and Prescot U.D.C. regarding disagreements over the window and with Mr (Councillor) Halsall (August 1912). |