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Loading... Liverpool park estates : their legal basis, creation and early managementby Susan George
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The rapid growth of nineteenth-century English cities produced leafy suburbs, and an occasional feature of these was the development of the estate park of modestly secluded Victorian villas. To preserve their valued amenities, such parks bound the middle-class owners of houses within them byrestrictive legal covenants. The documents relating to such parks are often inaccessible, but for three of them in Liverpool, the available records enable their early history to be studied.The first part of this book deals with the legal basis and evolution of the restrictive covenant, a device still of considerable importance in housing development and amenity protection across England. The second part deals individually with the three Liverpool parks, the social reasons for theirfoundation and growth, and the problems that beset the entrepreneurs who established them in the mid-nineteenth century (and often then lived in them) during the early years of the parks' existence. After more than a hundred years, all three of the parks studied continue not only as highly favoredresidential areas, but also as exemplars of the success of the deployment of the restrictive covenant. No library descriptions found. |
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Google Books — Loading... GenresMelvil Decimal System (DDC)711.580942753The arts Area planning and landscape architecture Area planning (Civic art) Specific kinds of areas Residential areasLC ClassificationRatingAverage: No ratings.Is this you?Become a LibraryThing Author. |
"This work is not just of value to property lawyers, but also to legal and social historians, local historians, developers, planners and architects. The book demonstrates the value of a legal context in historical research."