TOWN AND COUNTRY PLANNING ACT 1990

Proposed Pedestrianisation of a Highway at Barrow-in-Furness

The Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions hereby gives notice that on the application of Barrow-in-Furness Borough Council he proposes to make an Order under section 249 of the above Act to provide for the extinguishment of any right which persons may have to use vehicles on a length of Duke Street, Barrow-in-Furness, fronting the Town Hall from its junction with Market Street to its junction with Cornwallis Street. The proposed Order will contain provisions for permitting the use of that highway by vehicles being used:   (a) for police, ambulance or fire brigade purposes;   (b) in connection with the laying, erection, inspection, maintenance, alteration, repair, renewal or removal in or near the said length of highway of any sewer, main pipe, conduit, wire, cable or other apparatus for the supply of gas, water, electricity or of any telecommunication apparatus as defined in Schedule 2 to the Telecommunications Act 1984;   (c) in connection with the maintenance of premises adjacent to that highway;   (d) where the vehicle is being used by the local authority in pursuance of their statutory powers and duties.   Copies of the draft Order and relevant plan may be inspected at all reasonable hours during the 28 days commencing on 17th April 1998 at the Town Hall, Duke Street, Barrow-in-Furness, and may be obtained, free of charge, from the Government Office for the North West (Transport) (quoting reference GO/TNW 5049/41/39/05) at the address stated below.   Any person may object to the making of the proposed Order within the period of 28 days commencing on 17th 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 North West (Transport), Sunley Tower, Piccadilly Plaza, Manchester M1 4BE.   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. G. Tarr, Government Office for the North West