TOWN AND COUNTRY PLANNING ACT 1990

Stopping-up of Highways

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 all purpose highway known as Long Drove, and a length of all purpose highway known as Ouse Fen Road, west of Willingham, Cambridgeshire.   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 ARC Limited by Cambridgeshire County Council on 15th May 1995, under Ref. H/0978/93 and S/1289/93.   The Order requires the provision of new highways which shall be bridleways maintainable at the public expense for which Cambridgeshire County Council will be the local highway authority.   It should be noted that the proposed Order, referred to in this notice, supersedes the draft Order referred to in the notice published on 5th August 1997, and which will not now be made.   Copies of the draft Order and relevant plan may be inspected at all reasonable hours during 28 days commencing on 2nd July 1998, at the offices of South Cambridgeshire District Council, South Cambridgeshire Hall, 9-11 Hills Road, Cambridge, and at the address of the Clerk to Over Parish Council, 32 West Street, Over, Cambridgeshire, and may be obtained, free of charge, from the Government Office for Eastern Region (Planning and Transport) (quoting Ref. GT/G0500/35/1/03) at the address stated below.   Any person may object to the making of the proposed Order within the period of 28 days commencing on 2nd July 1998 by notice to the Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions, quoting the above reference, at the Government Office for Eastern Region (Planning and Transport), Heron House, 49-53 Goldington Road, Bedford MK40 3LL.   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. C. M. Bambury, a Higher Executive Officer in the Government Office for Eastern Region.

Schedule

Description of Development

  The extraction of sand and gravel and restoration to agricultural use both at existing and low level together with the erection of a processing plant, a conveyor bridge over the River Great Ouse, and a new vehicle access onto the A1123 near Needingworth. 18th June 1998.