TOWN AND COUNTRY PLANNING ACT 1990

The Stopping-up of Highways (Various Roads, Butetown, Cardiff) Order 1998

The Secretary of State for Wales hereby gives notice that he has made an Order under section 247 of the Town and Country Planning Act 1990 to authorise the stopping-up of the highways described in Schedule 1 to this notice.   The stopping-up is authorised only in order to enable the development described in Schedule 2 to this notice to be carried out in accordance with planning permission granted by the County Council of the City and County of Cardiff on 2nd June 1998, under Ref. 97/02272/C. The Order shall cease to have effect upon the cessation of the planning permission.   The Order will require the provision of new highway which will be highway maintainable at the public expense, for which the County Council of the City and County of Cardiff shall be the Highway Authority.   Copies of the Order and the deposited plan may be inspected, free of charge, during normal office hours at the office of Cardiff County Council, County Hall, Atlantic Wharf, Cardiff, or may be obtained, free of charge, from the Welsh Office Highways Directorate, Cathays Park, Cardiff CF1 3NQ, (quoting Ref. ZC510-5-71-15).   If any person desires to question the validity of the Order, or of any of the provisions contained therein, on the grounds that it is not within the powers of the Town and Country Planning Act 1990, or that their interests have been substantially prejudiced by a failure to comply with any of the requirements of the Act, he may, within 6 weeks of 17th September 1998, apply to the High Court for the suspension or quashing of the Order or of any provision contained therein. R. D. Chaffey, Roads Administration Division, Welsh Office

Schedule 1

Description of the Highways to be stopped up under this Order (all measurements are approximate)

  The highways to be stopped up are at Butetown in Cardiff and comprise:   (i) areas of highway known as East Canal Wharf comprising.       (a) a crescent shaped area of highway, comprising carriageway and adjoining footways, which extends for a maximum distance of 47 metres, at its western side, from a point 43 metres north-west of its junction with Tresillian Way and has an area of 655 square metres; and       (b) a length of carriageway and footway which extends from its junction with Tresillian Way for a distance of 17 metres.   (ii) those lengths of highway known as Crichton Street comprising carriageway and the northern footway which extend from:       (a) its junction with East Canal Wharf for a distance of 90 metres; and       (b) from a point 4 metres west of its junction with Bute Street for a distance of 25 metres.   (iii) that length of highway known as Hope Street which extends from its junction with Wharf Street for a distance of 48 metres;   (iv) a length and part width of highway known as Wharf Street, comprising carriageway and footway, which extends for a maximum distance of 111 metres on its northern side from its junction with Bute Street and has a total area of 876 square metres;   (v) the western footway of Bute Street which extends from its junction with Tresillian Way in a northerly direction for a distance of 54 metres;   (vi) sections of highway known as Tresillian Way comprising:       (a) a triangular shaped area of carriageway and footway at its junction with Bute Street and Wharf Street, 21 metres in length with a maximum width of 6 metres and an area of 75 square metres;       (b) an irregular shaped section of carriageway and footway which extends from a point 22 metres south-west of the centrepoint of its junction with Bute Street for a distance of 111 metres and has a maximum width of 18 metres and a total area of 1,202 square metres;       (c) a triangular shaped area of carriageway and footway extending for a distance of 44 metres from the centrepoint of its junction with West Wharf Road, with a maximum width of 11 metres and an area of 234 square metres; and       (d) an irregular shaped section of carriageway and footway which extends from the southern end of its junction with Tresillian Terrace for a distance of 60 metres and has a maximum width of 15 metres and a total area of 669 square metres.   (vii) sections of highway known as West Canal Wharf comprising:       (a) a section of carriageway, situated 56 metres south-east of its junction with West Wharf Road, extending from its boundary with the eastern footway to its boundary with the western footway with a maximum width of 2 metres and an area of 24 square metres; and       (b) in irregular shaped section of carriageway and footway which extends from a point 5 metres north of its junction with Tresillian Way for a maximum distance of 77 metres at its western side and has a maximum width of 11 metres and total area of 547 square metres.   (viii) sections of highway known as West Wharf Road comprising:       (a) a section of carriageway, situated 65 metres north-west of its junction with Tresillian Way, extending from its eastern boundary for a distance of 10 metres to the eastern boundary of the western footway with a maximum width of 2 metres and an area of 19 square metres; and       (b) an irregular shaped section of carriageway and footway which extends from its junction with Tresillian Way for a distance of 31 metres and has a maximum width of 27 metres and a total area of 378 square metres.

Description of the new Highway to be provided under this Order

  The highways to be provided are at Butetown in Cardiff and comprise:   (i) to replace the present Tresillian Way route, a new dual carriageway from the Penarth Road/Tresillian Terrace junction generally eastwards to a new roundabout at location of existing roads, West Canal Wharf and East Canal Wharf. From this new roundabout, the new road will continue as split eastbound and westbound carriageways (parallel with Crichton Street and Wharf Street respectively) to Bute Street;   (ii) a new section of highway will run north-westwards from the new roundabout to form a revised and improved junction with Custom House Street, St. Mary Street, Saunders Road and Mill Lane at their present junction. A short length of new road will link Penarth Road to West Wharf Road to maintain local vehicular access to West Wharf Road and West Canal Wharf.   In addition cycle tracks and cycle lanes will be provided within the new and improved road infrastructure to cater, in particular, for cyclists’ north-south movements. Consultations on their exact locations are continuing.

Schedule 2

  Road infrastructure, footways, landscaped open spaces, park land and water features reservation for future light rail transit system comprising Bute Square and Bute Avenue at development site at Bute Square and Bute Avenue, Butetown, Cardiff.