| Description | Papers and correspondence relating to a Clearance Order placed by Whiston Rural District Council on properties in Brook Street, Whiston. These properties are numbers 1 to 29 (odd numbers, 15 properties), are owned by William Swindells, of St. Helens, with Greenall, Whitley and Co. Ltd., St. Helens acting as the Ground Landlord. The Council intends to build homes for elderly people in their place.
Bundle includes: handwritten notes and drafts of documents; correspondence with Greenall, Whitley and Co. (1956 - 1957); draft report by Frederick William Bunting, Medical Officer of Health, Whiston R.D.C., on the poor condition of the properties (1956); correspondence with J.A. Hunter and Co., St. Helens (1956 - 1957); correspondence with William Swindells (1956 - 1957); Notice of the Making of a Clearance Order addressed to Greenall, Whitley and Co. (November 1956); correspondence with Ministry of Housing and Local Government, London (1956 - 1957) draft notices of the clearance order with schedule (November 1956 and January 1957); map of the site with the properties highlighted in pink (November 1956); questionnaire completed by Greenall, Whitley and Co. regarding the properties (September 1957); questionnaire completed by Swift, Garner and Hall, solicitors, St. Helens, on behalf of J.A. Hunter and Co. (March 1958). Also includes copies of the following newspapers containing advertisements of the public notice of the clearance order: Prescot and Huyton Reporter (23 November 1956 and 22 February 1957) and St. Helens and District Reporter (24 November 1956). |