TOWN AND COUNTRY PLANNING ACT 1990

Highway at Stonebow Road, Hereford

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 Stonebow Road, the stopping-up of private means of access to premises and the stopping-up of existing footpath at the site of the Hereford County Hospital.   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 wih the planning permission granted by Hereford City Council, on 31st March 1998, under Ref. HC/970084/PF/E.   The proposed Order will also require improvements of an area of Stonebow Road, and the provision of new highway, maintainable at the public expense for which the county of Herefordshire District Council will be the local Highway Authority.   The proposed Order will also require the provision of new means of private access to premises, to be privately maintained and for which the county of Herefordshire District Council will not be the local Highway Authority.   The proposed Order will provide that the stopping-up must not be carried out until the developer has provided improvements to an area of Stonebow Road, new highway, and new means of private access to premises.   Copies of the draft Order and relevant plan may be inspected at all reasonable hours during 28 days commencing on 22nd October 1998, at the offices of the county of Herefordshire District Council, Town Hall, St. Owens Street, Hereford HR1 2PJ, and may be obtained, free of charge, from the Government Office for the West Midlands (quoting Ref. 5058/35/1/28) 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 October 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 bourne 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

  Construction of a new hospital building including access, parking and landscaping and re-development and demolition of adjacent buildings situated at Hereford County Hospital, Union Walk, Hereford.