The original 1959 lease covered only a twenty-foot-square parcel of Progress Association land. A growing brigade needed larger premises, and later arrangements did not produce a simple documentary trail.
A Council memo in May 1990 said the station was partly built on land outside a lease that had run from 1971 to 1979. A proposed plan covering all the land and building had apparently not been registered. In 1992 Council’s solicitors were asked to renew a lease after Council could not locate one for 1979–1989.
A ten-year lease beginning in 1989 was eventually registered. In April 1996 a letter asked what would happen at its 1999 expiry, including whether the brigade would vacate and remove the buildings. Council replied later that year that the brigade was expected to continue and sought another ten years.
Council followed up the unanswered renewal request in April 1998; agreement followed in May. A solicitor’s letter in September 1999 confirmed registration. The archive describes the new lease as running from 1 August 1999 to 31 July 2009; this is a term documented in 1999, not an extension of this history beyond 2001.
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Open the original record at the supporting passage.
- parcel of land 20’ x 20’1957-1959.htm
- constructed partly on landThe 1990's to Date.htm
- unable to locate aThe 1990's to Date.htm
- Vacating the premisesThe 1990's to Date.htm
- lease 6109002NThe 1990's to Date.htm