TOWN AND COUNTRY PLANNING ACT 1990

Highway at Princess Alice Drive, Princess Park, Sutton Coldfield

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 Princess Alice Drive, Princess Park, Sutton Coldfield. 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 19th November 1997, under Ref. N/04069/96/FUL.   The proposed Order will require an improvement of an area of Princess Alice Drive by the formation of a new footway across the front of the bellmouth to connect with the existing footway on either side of the area to be improved, 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 24th March 1998, at the offices of Birmingham City Council, Baskerville House, Broad Street, Birmingham B1 2NA, and also at Boldmere Library, Boldmere Road, Sutton Coldfield B73 5TU, and may be obtained, free of charge, from the Government Office for the West Midlands (quoting Ref. 5104/35/121) at the address stated below.   Any person may object to the making of the proposed Order within the period of 28 days commencing on 24th March 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. R. G. Simpson, a Senior Professional and Technical Officer, Planning, Transport and Environment, Government Office for the West Midlands.

Schedule

  Demolition of buildings and erection of residential development (Use Class C3), non-food retail warehouses (Use Class A1), health and fitness leisure centre (Use Class D2), Children’s care units (Use Class C2), formation and alterations of access roads, landscaping, parking, servicing and access to public open space at Chester Road North/Princess Alice Drive, New Oscott, Sutton Coldfield.