TOWN AND COUNTRY PLANNING ACT 1990

Proposed Stopping-up of a Highway in Liverpool

The Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions hereby gives notice that on the application of Ellis Williams Partnership on behalf of Apollo Leisure Limited, they propose to make an Order under section 247 of the above Act, which will authorise the stopping-up of a length of Coal Street, Liverpool, from its junction with Lime Street and extending in a south-easterly direction for a distance of 31 metres and a width of 5 metres.   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 The Empire Theatre (Merseyside) Trust, by Liverpool City Council, on 16th February 1998, under Ref. 97P/1178.   Copies of the draft Order and relevant plan may be inspected at all reasonable hours during the 28 days commencing on 7th September 1998, at Millennium House, 60 Victoria Street, Liverpool, and may be obtained, free of charge, from the Government Office for the North West (Transport) (quoting Ref. GO/TNW 5091/35/1/02) at the address stated below.   Any person may object to the making of the proposed Order within the period of 28 days commencing on 7th September 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

  To develop site by the erection of a 4-storey extension to the Empire Theatre and a new box office over Coal Street, (following the demolition of 2-10 London Road), Liverpool.