TOWN AND COUNTRY PLANNING ACT 1990

Stopping-up of Highway at Ipstones Avenue, Stechford, Birmingham

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 an area of highway at Ipstones Avenue, Stechford, Birmingham.   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 by Birmingham City Council on 1st April 1993, under Ref. E/04482/92/FUL.   The proposed Order will require an improvement of part of Ipstones Avenue, maintainable at the public expense for which Birmingham City Council will be the local highway authority.   Copies of the draft Order and relevant plan may be inspected at all reasonable hours during 28 days commencing on 20th February 1998, at the offices of Birmingham City Council, Department of Planning and Architecture, Baskerville House, Broad Street, Birmingham B1 2NA, and may be obtained, free of charge, from the Government Office for the West Midlands (quoting Ref. 5104/ 35/1/96), at the address stated below.   Any person may object to the making of the proposed Order within the period of 28 days commencing on 20th February 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 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. L. M. E. Henderson, a Higher Executive Office, Planning, Transport and Environment, Governement Office for the West Midlands.

Schedule

Erection of 2 detached single-storey residential care homes at Ipstones Avenue, land off former Audley Road Depot, Stechford.