TOWN AND COUNTRY PLANNING ACT 1990

Highways at Land bounded by New Street, High Street, Dudley Street and Park Street, Birmingham City Centre

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 areas of highways, including footways, walkways and subways, at land bounded by New Street, High Street, Dudley Street and Park Street, Birmingham City Centre.   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 outline planning permission granted by Birmingham City Council on 25th July 1997, under Ref. C/04453/96/FUL.   The proposed Order will require an improvement of Moor Street Queensway, Park Street, Digbeth, Moat Lane, Edgbaston Street, Gloucester Street, Pershore Street, Smallbrook Queensway, Dudley Street, Worcester Street, St. Martins Circus, New Street and High Street, and the provision of new highway maintainable at the public expense for which Birmingham City Council will be the local highway authority and a new pedestrian route between New Street, High Street and Edgbaston Street open to the public 24 hours a day, 7 days a week within the area shown on drawing RCO/012 (Plan C).   The proposed Order will provide that the stopping-up must not be carried out until the developer has provided new highway and a new pedestrian route and that highway (but not the new pedestrian route) shall be 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 3rd April 1998, at the offices of Birmingham City Council, Baskerville House, Broad Street, Birmingham B1 2NA, and may be obtained, free of charge, from the Government Office for the West Midlands (quoting Ref. 5104/35/1/119) at the address stated below.   Any person may object to the making of the proposed Order within the period of 28 days commencing on 3rd April 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 Officer, Planning, Transport and Environment, Government Office for the West Midlands.

Schedule

  Construction of a shopping centre and market complex and associated works to land and highways at the Bull Ring Shopping Centre and adjoining land to involve; the demolition, adaptation and renovation of buildings and structures, the change of use of land in highway and open space use; and the construction of a new mixed use development at land bounded by Smallbrook Queensway, High Street, St. Martins Circus Queensway, Moor Street, Park Street, Digbeth, Moat Lane, Upper Dean Street, Pershore Street and Dudley Street.