TOWN AND COUNTRY PLANNING ACT 1990

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 areas of highway at Roker Avenue, George Street North and Causeway, Monkwearmouth, Sunderland, Tyne and Wear.   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 to David Kitchen Associates acting on behalf of W M Pension Fund, London York Fund Managers Limited, by The Council of the City of Sunderland, on 2nd September 1997, under Ref. 97/00517/FUL.   Copies of the draft Order and relevant plan may be inspected at all reasonable hours during 28 days commencing on 13th May 1998, at the offices of The Council of the City of Sunderland, Reception Desk, Adminstration Department, Civic Centre, Burdon Road, Sunderland SR2 7DN, and may be obtained, free of charge, from the Secretary of State, at the offices of the Department of the Environment, Transport and the Regions, (quoting Ref. GO-NE/98/5038/35/1) at the address stated below.   Any person may object to the making of the proposed Order within the period of 28 days commencing on 13th May 1998, by notice to the Secretary of State, quoting the above reference, at the offices of the Director of Planning, Environment and Transport, Government Office for the North East, Wellbar House, Gallowgate, Newcastle upon Tyne NE1 4TD.   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 who may be affected by it and that those persons may wish to communicate with the objector about it. A. Johnson, a Grade 7 Official in the Deparment of Environment, Transport and the Regions.

Schedule

  The planning permission granted is for the erection of carpet and furniture retail warehouse and associated car parking including change of use from public highway to car parking, retailing and landscaped areas.