TOWN AND COUNTRY PLANNING ACT 1990

Proposed Stopping-up of a Highway in the Borough of Tameside

The Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions hereby gives notice that on the application of J E Currie and Company for Easter and Beswick Construction Limited, he proposes to make an Order under section 247 of the above Act, which will authorise the stopping-up of Britannia Struct, Ashton-under-Lyne.   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 J E Currie and Company for Oxley Threads Limited by Tameside Metropolitan Borough Council, on 17th December 1997, under Ref. 97/P/1014/FUL.   Copies of the draft Order and relevant plan may be inspected at all reasonable hours during the 28 days commencing on 22nd October 1998, at Tameside Council Offices, Wellington Road, Ashton-under-Lyne, and may be obtained, free of charge, from the Government Office for the North West (Transport) (quoting Ref. GO/TNW 5087/35/1/31) 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 North West (Transport), Sunley Tower, Piccadilly Plaza, Manchester M1 4BE.   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.   General enquiries relating to this notice may be made in writing to Mrs. C. Finnigan, at Government Office, at the above address, or on Tel. No. 0161-952 4263. G. Tarr, Government Office for the North West, Department of the Environment, Transport and the Regions.  (Tel. No. 0161-952 4261.)

Schedule.

  To close off Britannia Street by means of double gates.