TOWN AND COUNTRY PLANNING ACT 1990

Highway at the Bus Station, adjacent to the Cornbow Centre and The Queensway, Halesowen

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 an area of highway at the bus station, adjacent to the Cornbow Centre and the Queensway, Halesowen. 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 Dudley Metropolitan Borough Council on 30th April 1998 under reference 98/50337.   Copies of the draft Order and relevant plan may be inspected at all reasonable hours during 28 days commencing 24th July 1998, at the offices of Dudley Metropolitan Borough Council, 3 St. James’ Road, Dudley, West Midlands DY1 1HZ, and may be obtained, free of charge, from the Government Office for the West Midlands quoting Ref. 5106/35/1/11, at the address stated below.   Any person may object to the making of the proposed Order within the period of 28 days commencing on 24th 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 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

  Change of use of existing highway land to bus station, construction of new Island and pedestrian crossing, and relocation of shelters.