Town and Country Planning
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 a length of all purpose highway at Sandringham Road, Houghton Regis,
Bedfordshire.
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 Jephson Housing Association by South Bedfordshire
District Council on 5th January 1998, under reference SB/TP/97/0610.
The proposed Order will provide that the stopping-up must not be carried out until
the developer, Alfred McAlpine Partnership Housing Ltd., has improved Sandringham
Drive over the area shown by cross hatching on the deposited plan.
Copies of the draft Order and relevant plan may be inspected at all reasonable
hours during 28 days commencing on 24th June 1998, at the offices of South Bedfordshire
District Council, The District Offices, High Street North, Dunstable, at the address
of the Clerk to Houghton Regis Town Council, Peel Street, Houghton Regis, and may
be obtained, free of charge, from the Government Office for Easter Region (Planning
and Tansport) (quoting reference GT/N0220/35/1/12) at the address stated below.
Any person may object to the making of the proposed Order within the period of
28 days commencing on 24th June 1998, by notice to the Secretary of State for the
Environment, Transport and the Regions, quoting the above reference, at the Government
Office for Eastern Region (Planning and Transport), Heron House, 49-53 Goldington
Road, Bedford MK40 3LL.
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. Fernhead, a Higher Executive Officer, in the Government Office for Eastern Region (Planning
and Transport).
Schedule
Description of Development
Erection of 50 dwellings with roads, other associated works and an Estate Management Office.