TOWN AND COUNTRY PLANNING ACT 1990

The Stopping-up of Highways (County of Bedfordshire) (No. 1) Order 1998

The Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions hereby gives notice that, on the application of Bedfordshire County Council, he has made an Order under section 247 of the above Act entitled “The Stopping-up of Highways (County of Bedfordshire) (No. 1) Order 1998” authorising the stopping-up of two lengths of all purpose highway at Grange Road and two lengths of all purpose highway at Mill Lane, Barton Le Clay, Bedfordshire to enable development consisting of the construction of roads for Phase 2 Development to link Phases 1 and 2 with emergency link only to Mill Lane (revised scheme) in accordance with the planning permission granted under Part III of the Act to Bedfordshire County Council by South Bedfordshire District Council, on 13th September 1996, as amended on 10th July 1997, under Ref. SB/TP/95/0460.
  The Order requires improvements of highway at Grange Road and Mill Lane, Barton Le Clay and the provision of a new footpath and a new bridleway maintainable at the public expense for which Bedfordshire County Council will be the local highway authority.
  The Order provides that the stopping-up must not be carried out until Twigden Homes Limited has improved the highway at Grange Road and Mill Lane and provided the new highways comprising a footpath and a bridleway and that the new highways shall be highways maintainable at the public expense for which Bedfordshire County Council will be the local highway authority.
  Copies of the Order may be obtained, free of charge, on application to the Government Office for Eastern Region (Planning and Transport), Heron House, 49-53 Goldington Road, Bedford MK40 3LL (quoting Ref. GT/N0220/35/1/10) and may be inspected at all reasonable hours at the offices of South Bedfordshire District Council, Planning Services Division, The District Offices, High Street North, Dunstable, Bedfordshire.
  Any person aggrieved by the Order and desiring to question the validity thereof, or of any provision contained therein, on the ground 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 16th July 1998, apply to the High Court for the suspension or quashing of the Order or any provision contained therein.
A. J. Moore, a Principal in the Government Office for Eastern Region.