| Description | Bundle of correspondence and papers relating to Prescot Urban District Council's Improvement Scheme for housing in the district. Includes: Local Government Board's Provisional Order Instructions for confirmation of Improvement Schemes (August 1900); two draft typescript copies of the Prescot U.D.C.'s statement of number of persons of the working classes who will be displaced by the Improvement Scheme (October 1900); copy of a Petition to the Local Government Board by the Prescot Urban District Council, under the Housing of the Working Classes Act, 1890, regarding the proposed Improvement Scheme, Areas 1 and 2 (High Street and Eccleston Street), Prescot (November 1900); letter from the Local Government Board regarding arrangements for an Inquiry by one of their Inspectors into Prescot's Improvement Scheme Petition (December 1900); lists of occupiers and owners served with notices; Notice of Passing of Confirming Act from the Local Government Board, regarding the Prescot Housing of the Working Classes Order (July 1901); Plan of site for the erection of new dwellings under Article III of the Prescot Housing of the Working Classes Order (January 1902). The bundle also includes a large amount of correspondence and telegrams regarding the Improvement Scheme and covering the following topics: purchasing of property in the Scheme areas; letters regarding terms and questions about the Scheme from property owners, as well as letters from solicitors on behalf of clients; letters of assent and dissent to the proposed Scheme; requests for documents from Messrs Dyson and co., Parliamentary Agents, London, and responses to requests; correspondence with the Local Government Board regarding issuing of notices to property owners and occupiers and notice of their Inquiry into the Scheme (September 1900 - July 1901). |