Folkestone
Express 1-4-1933
Local News
At the Folkestone Police Court on Tuesday the
Magistrates granted a protection order to sell at the Packet Boat, Radnor
Street, to Mr. J. Sirrett, ex Sergeant Major in the Royal Marine Artillery, Mr.
Ellen being the outgoing tenant.
Folkestone
Express 7-10-1933
Council Meeting Extract
The Folkestone Town Council on Wednesday approved of
the Health Committee`s recommendations concerning the scheme for dealing with
the whole of Radnor Street as a slum clearance, and further progress will
therefore be possible in connection with the rebuilding of the area. The scheme
include the compulsory purchase of four licensed houses, lodging houses, a
restaurant, stores, temporary buildings for amusement, and workshops.
The Health Committee`s recommendations dealing with the
matter were as follows: (extract)
Resolved: That Compulsory Purchase Orders be made for
the purchase by the Council; that there shall be included in the
above-mentioned Compulsory Purchase Orders the under-mentioned properties and
such other properties which are surrounded by or adjoin the clearance area,
including: Radnor Street, No. 59, public house (Packet Boat Inn); No. 24,
public house (Jubilee Inn); No. 30, public house (Oddfellows Arms); No. 38,
public house (Ship Inn)
Councillor Dallas Brett said with regard to the four
public houses those were matters presenting somewhat of a difficulty. It was a
difficulty which had not been got over at the present moment, because it had
not been tackled, but he was informed at the Ministry in other schemes
throughout the country, where public houses had existed and had to be got rid
of, private arrangement with the brewers had been made, which had been more
satisfactory than would have been thought possible He proposed to ask his
Committee to give instructions to himself and the Town Clerk to see what
arrangements could be made. Whatever they did, they had got to realise that the
whole area had to be cleared, and that they included in their plans two very
valuable sites for public house property, to take the place of one or two or
more of the houses which were in existence in Radnor Street at the present
time. It was a matter of negotiations.
Councillor Barfoot said he believed that the scheme
would be materially reduced if the stores and two public houses on the Fish
Market were left as they were, and if the houses which it was proposed to build
on that site were built on what was now the amusement park.
The resolution confirming the adoption of the
recommendations was almost unanimously carried.
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