TOWN AND COUNTRY PLANNING ACT 1990

Highway at Brickhouse Lane South, Great Bridge, Tipton

The Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions hereby gives notice that he proposes to make an Order under section 247 of the above Act to authorise the stopping-up of part of Brickhouse Lane South, Great Bridge, Tipton.
  If the Order is made, the stopping-up will be authorised only in order 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 22nd September 1997, under reference BCS3948.
  The proposed Order will require the provision of new footpath maintainable at the public expense for which Sandwell Metropolitan Borough Council will be the local highway authority.
  The proposed Order will provide that the stopping-up must not be carried out until the developer has provided new footpath and that footpath shall be maintainable at the public expense for which Sandwell Metropolitan Borough Council will be the local highway authority.
  Copies of the draft Order and relevant plan may be inspected at all reasonable hours during 28 days commencing on 17th March 1998, at the offices of Sandwell Metropolitan Borough Council, Wigmore, Pennyhill Lane, West Bromwich, West Midlands B71 3RZ, and may be obtained, free of charge, from the Government Office for the West Midlands (quoting reference 5107/35/1/26) at the address stated below.
  Any person may object to the making of the proposed Order within the period of 28 days commencing on 17th March 1998, by notice to the Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions, quoting the above reference, at the Government Office for the West Midlands, Planning, Transport and Environment, 77 Paradise Circus, Queensway, Birmingham B1 2DT.
  In preparing an objection it should be borne in mind that the substance of it may be imparted to other persons who may be affected by it and that those persons may wish to communicate with the objector about it.
L. M. E. Henderson, a Higher Executive Officer, Planning, Transport and Environment, Government Office for the West Midlands.

Schedule

  Car park and associated retaining wall, footpath and landscaping. (The proposal involves the closure of part of Brickhouse Lane South.)