TOWN AND COUNTRY PLANNING ACT 1990

Proposed Stopping-up of the Highways at Manchester City Centre

The Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions hereby gives notice that on the application of Denton Hall, Solicitors on behalf of Marks and Spencer plc, he proposes to make an Order under section 247 of the above Act, which will authorise the stopping-up of parts of Corporation Street and Exchange Square, Manchester.   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 to Marks and Spencer plc by Manchester City Council on 18th September 1997, under Ref. 052370/FO/CITY/97.   Copies of the draft Order and relevant plan may be inspected at all reasonable hours during the 28 days commencing on 26th June 1998, at the Town Hall, Albert Square, Manchester, and may be obtained, free of charge, from the Government Office for the North West (Transport) (quoting Ref. GO/TNW 5082/35/1/69) at the address stated below.   Any person may object to the making of the proposed Order within the period of 28 days commencing on 26th 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 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, Department of the Environment, Transport and the Regions.

Schedule

  Erection of a retail store with restaurant/cafe on land abounded by Market Street, Corporation Street and Cannon Street, City.