[Report 1937] / Medical Officer of Health, Burnley R.D.C.
- Burnley (England). Rural District Council.
- Date:
- 1937
Licence: Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)
Credit: [Report 1937] / Medical Officer of Health, Burnley R.D.C. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![The construction of the new street r)n the site was deferred until the houses are nearing completion, only the water main, sewer and surface water drain being proceeded with. The last-mentioned drain had to be provided in order to comply with the County ('ouncil’s specification for new streets. As it was not included in the estimate approved by the Ministry of Health the expenditure will be correspondingly increased. The Council having decided to deal with blocks of dilapidated property at Haggate (Briercliffe), and Wesley Street (Sabden) as Slum Clearance Areas the requisite plans and schedules were prepared. Objections were raised by owners to the latter scheme and a Ministry of Health Inquiry was held by an Inspector—A. .\rcher- Betham, Esq., F.R.I.B.A.—-at Sabden, on October 27th. The Inspector also inspected the Briercliffe Area on the same day. Subsequently several sites for replacement houses were considered at Briercliffe and Sabden. A site was selected for four houses on Burnley Road, Briercliffe, and another for ten houses on Clitheroe Road, Sabden. These were surveyed and plans submitted to the Ministry of Health. The District Valuer was afterwards requested to value the sites and after his valuation of the Briercliffe plot had been received in July, negotiations for its leasing were entered into with the landowner but it was not until the end of February, 1938, that the approval of the Ministry of Health could be obtainfed. Up to the end of the year the valuation of the site at Sabden had not been received, certain difficulties in connection with proposed streets adjoining the site having arisen. During the coming year it is expected that other Slum Areas will be dealt with ; also that houses will be erected to provide for dispossessed persons, and houses to abate overcrowding as revealed by the housing survey of last year. Schemes are fore- casted at Roughlee, Hapton, Worsthorne, Higham, Read, Old Laund Booth, Blacko, Cliviger and Dunnockshaw. Town and Regional Planning. North Fast Lancashire Town Planning Committee : Region No. 2. [Rural Districts of Burnley and Skipton ; Urban Districts of Padihani, Barrowford, Trawdcn, Barnoldswick, Earby and Brierfield ; Boroughs of Colne and Nelson ; County Borough of Burnley.] The following summary of the work done by the Committee during the year ended March 31st, 1938 has been furnished by the Regional Planning Officer, Mr. P. L. Hughes to whom the writer is indebted.](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b28965991_0058.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
