Folios 484-485. To: The Local Government Act Office. From: Messrs Radcliffe and...

Folios 484-485.

To: The Local Government Act Office.

From: Messrs Radcliffe and Layton, Clerks to the Local Board of West Derby [Lancashire].

Subject Matter: Letter enquiring as to whether the Local Board can take necessary land on which to make temporary subsidence tanks under Section 4 of the Local Government Act (1858) Amendment Act 1861 or whether they must proceed under Section 75 of the Local Government Act 1858.

They ask whether they are right in their assumption that the Local Board can take land outside their District for this purpose.

Enclosed [folio 485] is a copy of a letter from W McCaig stating that he and Mr Hughes visited R Simpson at Haggerstone [Northumberland] and showed him plans of the proposed tank. A sketch of the tank is included in the letter. McCaig states that he asked Simpson for about an acre of land either on lease or at a yearly rent and explained that the tank would 'relieve the Brook which flows through so large a portion of the estate of nearly all the offensive matter that is now emptied into it thus making a clear stream instead of a long open sewer as it is now'. He states that Simpson promised to lay the matter before Mr Naylor [the landowner] as soon as possible.