| Description | Papers and correspondence concerning a planning appeal for the Halsnead Estate, Windy Arbor Road, Whiston. The appeal is by Major W.J. Fraser and concerns his housing development plans for the estate.
Includes: correspondence with C.G. Tomlinson, Lancashire County Council Divisional Planning Office; copies of correspondence between W. Capper, Chartered Surveyor, and C.G. Tomlinson (1950); correspondence with W. Capper, Chartered Surveyor; Observations of the Whiston Rural District Council on Major Fraser's appeal, with the planning history in relation to the land that is the subject of appeal; correspondence with the Ministry of Town and Country Planning, London, regarding Major Fraser's appeal; copies of correspondence between the Ministry of Town and Country Planning and Morris and Riley, Chartered and Corporate Architects and Surveyors (1946); copy of Major Fraser's appeal to the Minister of Town and Country Planning (November 1946); timeline of activity leading to Major Fraser's appeal; statement by Watson Garbutt, Whiston R.D.C. Engineer and Surveyor, for a local inquiry, held by Mr. E. Farricker, M.T.P.I., into Major Fraser's appeal (February 1947); copy of letter sent to owners/occupiers of property in vicinity of proposed development, inviting them to the February 1947 public inquiry (January 1947); handwritten notes on the Council's objections to the appeal; correspondence between Watson Garbutt and J.G. Morgan & Co., building and general contractors, and Morris and Riley, regarding the building of housing on the Halsnead Estate site (1946); copy of a letter to the Whiston R.D.C. from Watson Garbutt describing proposed post-war housing development for the district (January 1944); list of owners and occupiers of properties in proximity to the proposed development who were notified of the February 1947 public inquiry. |