TOWN AND COUNTRY PLANNING ACT 1990

Proposed Stopping-up of Highways in Oldham

The Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions hereby gives notice that on the application of Oldham Metropolitan Borough Council they propose to make an Order under section 247 of the above Act, which will authorise the stopping-up of various highways within the area bounded by Dunbar Street, Rochdale Road, Chadderton Way and Feathersall Road North, Oldham.   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 Oldham Metropolitan Borough Council on 6th February 1997 under Ref. PA/035238/96.   Copies of the draft Order and relevant plan may be inspected at all reasonable hours during the 28 days commencing on 11th September 1998, at Henshaw House, Cheapside, Oldham, and may be obtained, free of charge, from the Government Office for the North West (Transport) (quoting Ref. GO/TNW 5083/35/1/72) at the address stated below.   Any person may object to the making of the proposed Order within the period of 28 days commencing on 11th 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

  Environmental improvements, including resurfacing footways, fencing, planting, traffic management, creation of a new play court and car parking spaces at Clarkwell Estate, Clarkwell Close, Oldham.