TOWN AND COUNTRY PLANNING ACT 1990

Highway at Counslow Road and Gypsy Lane, Freehay, Cheadle, Staffordshire

The Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions hereby gives notice that he proposes to make an Order under section 247 of the above Act to authorise the stopping-up of a length of Counslow Road and a length of Gypsy Lane, Freehay, Cheadle, Staffordshire.   If the Order is made, the stopping-up will be 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 by Staffordshire County Council on 9th October 1996 under Ref. SM.91/1355.   The proposed Order will require an improvement of part of Counslow Road, Coppice Lane, Alton Road and Gypsy Lane, the provision of two new private means of access and the provision of new highway maintainable at the public expense for which Staffordshire County Council will be the local highway authority. The proposed Order will also require the creation of a permissive path between Gypsy Lane and the junction of Counslow Road and Coppice Lane which will ultimately be dedicated as public right of way.   The proposed Order will provide that the stopping-up must not be carried out until the developer has provided new highway and that highway shall be maintainable at the public expense for which Staffordshire County Council will be the local highway authority.   Copies of the draft Order and relevant plan may be inspected at all reasonable hours during 28 days commencing on 1st June 1998 at the offices of the Public Library, Lock Road,Cheadle, Staffordshire ST10 1JF, and may be obtained, free of charge, from the Government Office for the West Midlands (quoting Ref. 5074/35/1/6) at the address stated below.   Any person may object to the making of the proposed Order within the period of 28 days commencing on 1st June 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 West Midlands, Planning, Transport and Environment, 77 Paradise Circus, Queensway, Birmingham B1 2DT.   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. L. M. E. Henderson, a Higher Executive Officer, Planning, Transport and Environment, Government Office for the West Midlands.

Schedule

(a) the rationalisation and extension of the existing sand and gravel extraction operations with progressive restoration to playing fields, commercial forestry and conservation orientated grazing land, woodland and heathland habitats; (b) the transportation of the extracted sand and gravel primarily by field conveyor to the existing processing plant and ancillary facilities; (c) the construction and use of freshwater and silt lagoons within existing and future worked out areas with progressive restoration as in (a); (d) the permanent diversion of the Counslow Road onto a newly constructed parallel route; (e) the temporary and permanent diversion and creation of various public Rights of Way including the Muddale Lane and Gypsy Lane byways; (f) the relocation of the block making and concrete making plants; (g) the diversion of various powerlines and pipelines at Croxden Quarry, Freehay, near Cheadle.