WIGAN METROPOLITAN BOROUGH COUNCIL

Highways Act 1980, Section 116 (as amended)

Application for authority to stop-up the landscaped area adjacent to the Old Town Hall at the Rodney Street and River Way Junction, Wigan. Notice is hereby given that the Wigan Borough Council, the highway authority within the meaning of the Highways Act 1980, as amended by the Local Government Act 1985, intends to apply to the Wigan Magistrates’ Court sitting at Darlington Street, Wigan, in the county of Greater Manchester, on Friday, 13th February 1998, at 9.30 a.m., for an Order authorising the stopping-up of the highway known as the landscaped area adjacent to the Old Town Hall at the Rodney Street and River Way Junction, Wigan, on the ground that the said highway is unnecessary.   The effect of the Order will be as shown in a plan which may be inspected, free of charge, between the hours of 9 a.m. and 4.30 p.m., at the New Town Hall, Library Street, Wigan, and described in the Schedule below. S. D. Lowe, Proper Officer, Borough Solicitor, the Wigan Borough Council. New Town Hall, Library Street,   Wigan WN1 1YN.  (Ref. BS/DB/HW13C54.)

Schedule

  Rodney Street, Wigan (Part), an area of landscaped highway of variable width, from its junction with River Way for a distance of approximately 57 metres in a south-westerly direction.    River Way, Wigan (Part), an area of landscaped highway of variable width from its junction with Rodney Street for a distance of 72 metres in a south-westerly direction.