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 (County of Leicestershire) (No. 2) Order 1998” authorising the stopping-up of a length of highway adjacent to Nos. 10-12 Bitteswell Road, Lutterworth, Leicestershire, measuring 14 metres in length.   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 Dransfield Properties Ltd and Safeway Stores Plc by Harborough District Council, on 8th September 1997, under Ref. 96/2014/3P.   The Order will also require the improvement of existing highway, maintainable at public expense, and for which the highway authority is to be the Leicestershire County 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 Ref. No. EMCM 506435/1/191), and may be inspected at all reasonable hours at the offices of Harborough District Council, 19-21 Market Street, Lutterworth, Leicestershire.   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 2nd July 1998, apply to the High Court for the suspension or quashing of the Order or of any provision contained therein.   For enquiries into this matter please contact Ian Marshall on 0115 9712503. W. H. Wiseman, Principal, Government Office for the East Midlands, Transport.

Schedule

  Erection of Class A1 foodstore with associated car parking, creation of new access to Bitteswell Road and conversion of No. 6 Bitteswell Road to form a dwelling, land north of George Street, Lutterworth.