TOWN AND COUNTRY PLANNING ACT 1990

The Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions hereby gives notice that he has made an Order under section 247 of the above Act entitled “The Stopping-Up of Highways (City of Leicester) (No. 1) Order 1998” authorising the stopping-up of lengths of highway at Pares Street, Devonshire Street and Watling Street, Leicester, as detailed below:   (a) the entire lengths of Pares Street and Devonshire Street; and   (b) a narrow length of highway on the western side of Watling Street from the junction with Devonshire Street to the junction with Friday Street.   The stopping-up is 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 to Reg Vardy Plc by Leicester City Council on 19th January 1998 under Ref. 970286.   The Order will also authorise the improvement of existing highway, maintainable at public expense, and for which the highway authority is to be the Leicester City Council.   Copies of the Order may be obtained, free of charge, by applying to the Government Office for the East Midlands, Transport, The Belgrave Centre, Stanley Place, Talbot Street, Nottingham NG1 5GG (quoting Ref. No. EMCM 506435/1/187) and may be inspected at all reasonable hours at the offices of the Leicester City Council, New Walk Centre, Welford Place, Leicester.   Any person aggrieved by the Order and desiring to question the validity thereof, or of any provision contained therein, on the ground 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 14th April 1998, apply to the High Court for the suspension or quashing of the Order or of any provision contained therein. W. H. Wiseman, Principal, Government Office for the East Midlands, Transport.

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  Single storey car showroom, workshop and body shop with part 2-storey for administration offices and canteen. External car sales area.