| Description | Papers and correspondence regarding the purchase of land at Oak Road, on the Royal Oak Farm estate, by Lancashire County Council from Whiston Rural District Council for the purposes of County Police housing.
Includes: copies of the Prescot and Huyton Reporter and the St. Helens and District Reporter with a public notice of extinguishment of public right of way on a footpath from Dragon Drive to Cumber Lane, covering part of the Royal Oak Farm estate (October 1953); Ministry of Housing and Local Government dismissal of two planning appeals for advertisements in Warrington Road, Whiston, by More O'Ferrall Ltd., Manchester (August and October 1955); invoice addressed to Lancashire County Council for the purchase price (capital): £410; correspondence with Lancashire County Council (1953); Requisitions on Title, with replies from Lancashire County Council (October 1953); draft conveyance, Whiston R.D.C. to Lancashire County Council, of a plot of land situate in and fronting to Oak Road (October 1953); plans of the development site (1953); correspondence with the Ministry of Housing and Local Government, Manchester and London, (1953); correspondence with the District Valuer, Liverpool (1953); questionnaire with information required by District Valuer (1953); reports by the District Valuer and Mineral Valuer on the site (July 1953 and September 1951). |