| Description | Papers and correspondence regarding a planning appeal by Shell Mex and B.P. Ltd. against the refusal of Whiston Rural District Council, acting on behalf of Lancashire County Council, to grant planning permission for a petrol station on the south side of the East Lancashire Road (A580), Knowsley.
Includes: photographs of the proposed site on the East Lancashire Road (c. 1956); typescript of evidence from Archibald Vernon Currie, Deputy Divisional Planning Officer, Lancashire County Council, for the planning appeal inquiry (September 1956); map of the appeal site; correspondence with the Ministry of Housing and Local Government, London, regarding the appeal (1956 - 1957); list of attendees at the planning appeal inquiry (September 1956); handwritten notes and questions relating to the inquiry (c. September 1956); typescript details of a number of appeals in Lancashire; statement on behalf of the Local Planning Authority for the inquiry (September 1956); typescript of evidence from Mr. G. Stockley, Ministry of Transport and Civil Aviation, for the inquiry with plan and list of accidents in the area between January 1953 and July 1956 (September 1956); typescript of evidence from Derek Frederick Robinson, North-Western Division of Shell-Mex and B.P. Ltd., for the inquiry (September 1956); correspondence with F.E. Vearncombe, New Road, Knowsley, regarding the proposed petrol station (September 1956); Shell-Mex and B.P. Ltd. Form of Appeal to the Minister of Housing and Local Government (April 1956); correspondence with the Ministry of Transport and Civil Aviation (September 1956); correspondence with properties in the vicinity of the proposed site (September 1956); correspondence with Lancashire County Council (1956); correspondence with Bremner, Sons & Corlett, solicitors, Liverpool, representing Shell-Mex and B.P. Ltd. (June 1956). |