Laying out of Blackley Estate, Manchester (Architectural Competition)

BLACKLEY - The plans submitted in competition by Messrs. Cooper and Slater, of Blackburn, and selected for the first premium, are now under consideration of the sanitary committee of the Manchester Corporation for the laying-out of a building estate of 103 acres of high-lying farmland at Blackley on the north side of the city, and for the erection of houses for the working classes, which, when carried out in its entirety, will involve an outlay well over £600,000. It is proposed to build 2.633 houses on the estate, and an area of 6.25 acres on the northern portion of the site is laid out as a public garden. [Building News 23 June 1911 page 825]

Reference    Building News 23 June 1911 page 825
Reference    Architect & Contract Reporter [London], xxxv, 12 Jan. 1912, 19; 
Reference    Canadian Municipal Journal, ix, July 1913, 301, biography and list of works by Cooper