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 Nottingham) (No. 1) Order 1998” authorising the stopping-up of a length of highway at Barker Gate, Nottingham, from the junction with Lower Parliament Street in a generally south-westerly direction for 123 metres to the junction with Bellar Gate/Belward 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 the Chief Executive, Nottingham City Council by the Development Department, Nottingham City Council, on 11th April 1996 under reference PGO/96.02.0144.   The Order will also require the improvement of existing highway, maintainable at public expense, and for which the highway authority is to be the Nottingham 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 reference No. EMCM 507035/1/169) and may be inspected at all reasonable hours at the offices of the City Secretary’s Department, Nottingham City Council, The Guildhall, South Sherwood Street, Nottingham.   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 29th 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.

Schedule

  New ice arena consisting of two olympic sized ice rinks one with a concert seating capacity of up to 10,000 people (including ice area) plus ancillary accommodation, and including the closure of Barker Gate.