TOWN AND COUNTRY PLANNING ACT 1990

Proposed Stopping-up of a Highway at Manchester City Centre

The Secretary of State for Transport hereby gives notice that on the application of Clifford Chance Solicitor, on behalf of Richardson Developments Limited, he proposes to make an Order under section 247 of the above Act, which will authorise the stopping-up of a length of Garden Street, Manchester, from its junction with Well Street, (at a point 28 metres north-east of the junction of Withy Grove with Garden Street), and extending for a distance of 101.50 metres to its junction with Dantzig Street.   If the Order is made, the stopping-up will be authorised only in order to enable the development described in Schedule to this notice to be carried out in accordance with the planning permission granted to Richardson Developments Ltd., by Manchester City Council, on 7th November 1997, under reference 052860/FO/CITY1/97.   Copies of the draft Order and relevant plan may be inspected at all reasonable hours during the 28 days commencing on 15th January 1998, at The Town Hall, Albert Square, Manchester, and may be obtained, free of charge, from the Government Office for the North West (Transport) (quoting reference GO/TNW 5082/35/1/64) at the address below.   Any person may object to the making of the proposed Order within the period of 28 days commencing on 15th January 1998, by notice to the Secretary of State for Transport, 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 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. Tarr, Government Office for the North West, Department of the Environment, Transport and the Regions.

Schedule

  Revision to outline proposals to form full application for mixed use development of multi screen cinema, family entertainment centre, health club, restaurants, shops and night clubs and transport interchange at Mark Lane, Corporation Street, Withy Grove, Garden Street, Well Street, Dantzic Street, Balloon Street and Co-op Bank; and Dantzic Street, Hanover Street, Shude Hill and Metrolink route.