TOWN AND COUNTRY PLANNING ACT 1990

Highway at Merton Street, Longton, Stoke-on-Trent

The Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions hereby gives notice that he made an Order under section 247 of the above Act entitled “The Stopping-up of Highways (City of Stoke-on-Trent) (No. 1) Order 1998, authorising the stopping-up of the entire length of Merton Street, Longton, Stoke-on-Trent, and requiring the provision of new highway shown as stippled on the deposited plan.   The Order as made, will authorise the stopping-up only to enable the development described in the Schedule to this notice to be carried out in accordance with the planning permission granted by Stoke-on-Trent City Council on 7th June 1994, under reference SOT/304487.   Copies of this Order may be obtained, free of charge, on application to the Government Office for the West Midlands at the offices of the Director, Planning, Transport and Environment, 77 Paradise Circus, Queensway, Birmingham B1 2DT, (quoting 5074/35/1/85) and may be inspected at all reasonable hours at the offices of Stoke-on-Trent City Council, Civic Centre, Glebe Street, Stoke-on-Trent ST4 1RG.   Any person aggrieved by the Order and desiring to question the validity thereof, or of any provision contained therein, on the grounds 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 19th November 1998, apply to the High Court for the suspension or quashing of the Order or of any provision contained therein. P. Langley, Director

Schedule

  Residential development at land off Amison Street, Meir Hay.