DUDLEY METROPOLITAN BOROUGH COUNCIL

Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990, Section 69

Notice of Designation of Conservation Area

Extension to Conservation Area Love Lane

Notice is given under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act, section 69, that the Dudley Metropolitan Borough Council has determined that the area described in the Schedule to this notice is an area of special architectural or historic interest the character of which it is desirable to preserve or enhance and has therefore designated this area as a conservation area.   The effect of the designation of the conservation area is as follows:   Conservation area consent will now be required for the demolition of all unlisted buildings (other than excepted buildings) in the area.   Planning applications for development which would in the opinion of the local planning authority affect the character or appearance of the conservation area must be given publicity and representations received as a result of the publicity must be taken into account in determining the application.   It becomes an offence subject to certain exceptions to cut down, top, lop, uproot, wilfully damage or wilfully destroy any tree in the area except with the consent of the local planning authority.   The local planning authority are now under duty to formulate and publish proposal for the preservation and enhancement of the area.   A map of the conservation area may be inspected, free of charge, during normal office hours at the office of the local planning authority, at 3 St. James’s Road, Dudley DY1 1HZ.

Schedule

  All that land known as the Love Lane Conservation Area approximately two kilometres to the south of Stourbridge town centre and half a kilometre to the west of Oldswinford Cross to include the eastern entrance to and boundary of Mary Stevens Park and south down Love Lane to include numbers 47-53, and east down Corser Street, taking in numbers 41-43. R. W. Johnson, Chief Planning and Leisure Officer 3 St. James’s Road,   Dudley DY1 1HZ. 5th March 1998.