| Description | Bundle of papers relating to building plans for the Housing of the Working Classes Act, 1890. Includes: representation of Prescot U.D.C.'s Medical Officer of Health, including a plan, highlighting insanitary and unfit properties (August 1900); handwritten and printed copies of Scheme of the Prescot Urban District Council, dealing with the insanitary areas in the district, under the Housing of the Working Classes Act, 1890 (October 1900); Surveyor's estimate of costs for works on insanitary areas between Eccleston Street and High Street (October 1900); two copies of the Petition to the Local Government Board by the Prescot U.D.C. for approval of the housing scheme (November 1900); small, hand-drawn plan showing land belonging to the Prescot Urban District Council in the areas of High Street, Atherton Street, Leyland Street and Hill Street; table providing details of the houses affected by the scheme, including location and number of residents; notice of inquiry into the Prescot U.D.C.'s proposed scheme (February 1901); Local Government Board's provisional order for confirming the proposed Improvement Scheme (May 1901); An Act to Confirm Certain Provisional Orders of the Local Government Board relating to Birkenhead and Prescot (June 1901); copy, with annotations, of Schedule of property proposed to be taken compulsorily by the Prescot Urban District Council (December 1902); An Act to Amend the Law Relating to the Housing of the Working Classes, with newspaper clipping (August 1903); bill of costs of William Halsall, Parkside, Prescot, in relation to sale of copyhold houses in High Street taken compulsorily by Prescot U.D.C. (January 1904); contract between Messrs S. and A. Taylor, of Prescot, builders, and the Prescot Urban District Council, for the erection of fourteen houses near Moss Street, Prescot (February 1904); sanction from the Local Government Board for the disposal of lands (January 1906). |