TOWN AND COUNTRY PLANNING ACT 1990

The Stopping-up of Highways (Bute Crescent, Bute Street and Stuart Street, Butetown, Cardiff) Order 1998

The Secretary of State for Wales hereby gives notice that he has made an Order under section 247 of the Town and Country Planning Act 1990, to authorise the stopping-up of the highway described in Schedule 1 to this notice.   The stopping-up is authorised only in order to enable the development described in Schedule 2 to this notice to be carried out in accordance with planning permission granted by the County Council of the City and County of Cardiff, on 1st April 1998, under Refs. 97/00388/C and 97/02004/C. The Order shall cease to have effect upon the cessation of the planning permission.   The Order requires the provision of new highway which will be highway maintainable at the public expense, for which the County Council of the City and County of Cardiff shall be the Highway Authority.   Copies of the Order and the deposited plan may be inspected, free of charge, during normal office hours at the offices of Cardiff County Council, County Hall, Atlantic Wharf, Cardiff, or may be obtained, free of charge, from the Welsh Office Highways Directorate, Cathays Park, Cardiff CF1 3NQ (quoting Ref. ZC 510-5-71-8).   If any person desires to question the validity of the Order or of any of the provisions contained therein, on the grounds:   (a) that it is not within the powers of the Town and Country Planning Act 1990; or   (b) that their interests have been substantially prejudiced by a failure to comply with any of the requirements of the Act, he may, within 6 weeks of 28th April 1998, apply to the High Court for the suspension or quashing of the Order or of any provision contained herein. R. D. Chaffey, Roads Administration Division, Welsh Office

Schedule 1 All distances are approximate

Description of the highway to be stopped-up under the Order

  The highways to be stopped are at Butetown, Cardiff, and comprise:   (i) an irregular shaped area of the footway and carriageway of Bute Crescent which commences from a point 25 metres south of the boundary between 9 and 10 Bute Crescent and ends 10 metres south of that point, a total area of 210 square metres which has a maximum length of 10 metres and a maximum width of 24 metres;   (ii) a 92 metre length, 5 metres in width, of the western footway and the carriageway of Bute Street which commences from a point 20 metres south of the southern facade of The Packet Public House and ends at a point adjacent to the northern boundary of Stuart Street; and   (iii) a 40 metre length, 2 metres in width, of the northern footway of Stuart Street which commences from its junction with Bute Street and ends at a point 40 metres west of that junction.

Description of new highway to be provided under the Order

  The highways to be provided are at Butetown, Cardiff, and comprise:   (i) a 140 metre length of footway and carriageway connecting Bute Street and Stuart Street, running in a generally southern direction from a point to the south of the southern facade of The Packet Public House, Bute Street, and joining Stuart Street near Pilotage House; and   (ii) a new turning head on the eastern side of Bute Crescent which has a total area of 98 square metres and dimensions of 9.3 metres by 10 metres.

Schedule 2

  Retail, catering and leisure development to be known as Mermaid Quay.