TOWN AND COUNTRY PLANNING ACT 1990

Union Road, West Bromwich, West Midlands

The Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions, hereby gives notice that he has made an Order under section 247 of the above Act entitled “The Stopping-up of Highways (Metropolitan Borough of Sandwell) (No. 10) Order 199 ”, authorising the stopping-up of a length of highway at Union Road, West Bromwich, West Midlands, and requiring the provision of new highway shown as stippled on the deposited plan and the provision of a new means of access shown as thin diagonal hatching on the deposited plan.   The Order, as made, will authorise the stopping-up only to enable the development described in the Schedule to this notice to be carried out in accordance with the planning permission granted by the Black Country Development Corporation on 8th August 1997, under Ref. BCS3864.   Copies of this Order may be obtained, free of charge, on application to the Government Office for the West Midlands, at the offices of the Director, Planning, Transport and Environment, 77 Paradise Circus, Queensway, Birmingham B1 2DT, (quoting 5107/35/1/21), and may be inspected at all reasonable hours at the offices of Sandwell Metropolitan Borough Council, Council House, PO Box 2374, Oldbury, Warley, West Midlands B69 3DE.   Any person aggrieved by the Order and desiring to question the validity thereof, or of any provision contained therein, on the grounds that it is not within the powers of the above Act, or that any requirement of that Act or of any regulation made thereunder has not been complied with in relation to the Order may, within 6 weeks of 2nd January 1998, apply to the High Court for the suspension or quashing of the Order or of any provision contained therein. P. Langley, Director, Planning, Transport and Environment, Government Office for the West Midlands.

Schedule

  Application for the erection of factory for stockholding and training room with associated parking and closure of end of Union Road. Demolition of existing industrial unit.