TOWN AND COUNTRY PLANNING ACT 1990

Proposed Stopping-up of a Highway at Workington, Cumbria

The Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions hereby gives notice that on the application of Home Housing Association Limited, he proposes to make an Order under section 247 of the above Act, which will authorise the stopping-up of a length of Kilnside at Distington, Workington, starting at a point 10 metres south of its junction with Kilnside Place and extending in a southerly direction for a distance of 55 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 Home Housing Association Limited by Copeland Borough Council on 6th November 1997, under Ref. 4/97/0556/0.   Copies of the draft Order and relevant plan may be inspected at all reasonable hours during the 28 days commencing on 10th September 1998, at Copeland Borough Council, Catherine Street, Whitehaven, Cumbria and may be obtained, free of charge, from the Government Office for the North West (Transport) (quoting Ref. GO/TNW 5049/35/1/35) at the address stated below.   Any person may object to the making of the proposed Order within the period of 28 days commencing on 10th 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

  Demolition of 16 houses, creation of public open space and parking area at Kilnside, Distington.