TOWN AND COUNTRY PLANNING ACT 1990

Proposed Stopping-up of a Highway at Billington, near Whalley, Lancaster

The Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions hereby gives notice that on the application of Allott & Lomax, on behalf of Brockhall Village Development Limited, he proposes to make an Order under section 247 of the above Act, which will authorise the stopping-up of a length of Northcote Road, Billington, near Whalley, from its junction with the A59 Longsight Road southwards for a distance of 2 metres. The Order will require the provision of a footpath.   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 London Aukland by Ribble Valley Borough Council, on 28th April 1995, under Ref. 3/94/0532/P.   Copies of the draft Order and relevant plan may be inspected at all reasonable hours during 28 days commencing on 22nd May 1998 at the offices of Ribble Valley Borough Council, Council Offices, Church Walk, Clitheroe, and may be obtained, free of charge, from the Government Office for the North West (Transport) (quoting Ref. GO-TNW) at the address stated below.   Any person may object to the making of the proposed Order, within the period of 28 days commencing on 22nd May 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 North West (Transport), Sunley Tower, Piccadilly Plaza, Manchester M1 4BE.   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. G. Tarr, Government Office for the North West, Department of the Environment, Transport and the Regions. (Tel. No. 0161-952 4261.)

Schedule

  Redevelopment and re-use of Brockhall Hospital to form a mixed use village consisting of employment uses and residential development of up to 400 additional dwellings.