TOWN AND COUNTRY PLANNING ACT 1990

The Stopping-up of Highways (County of Bedfordshire) (No. 2) Order 1998

The Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions hereby gives notice that, on the application of Jephson Housing Association he has made an Order under section 247 of the above Act entitled “The Stopping-up of Highways (County of Bedfordshire) (No. 2) Order 1998” authorising the stopping-up of a length of all purpose highway at Sandringham Drive, Houghton Regis, Bedfordshire, to enable development consisting of the erection of 50 dwellings with roads, other associated works and an Estate Management Office to be carried out in accordance with the planning permission granted under Part III of the Act to Jephson Housing Association by South Bedfordshire District Council on 5th January 1998, under reference SB/TP/97/0610.   The Order provides that the stopping-up must not be carried out until the developer, Alfred McAlpine Partnership Housing Ltd. has improved Sandringham Drive over the area shown by cross hatching on the deposited plan.   Copies of the Order may be obtained free of charge, on application to the Government Office for Eastern Region (Planning and Transport), Heron House, 49-53 Goldington Road, Bedford MK40 3LL (quoting reference GT/N0220/35/1/12) and may be inspected at all reasonable hours at the offices of South Bedfordshire District Council, Planning Services Division, The District Offices, High Street North, Dunstable and at the address of the Clerk to Houghton Regis Town Council, Peel Street, Houghton Regis.   Any person aggrieved by the Order and desiring to question the validity thereof, or of any provision contained therein, on the ground that it is not within the powers of the above Act or that any requirement of that Act or of any regulation made thereunder has not been complied with in relation to the Order, 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. A. J. Moore, a Principal in the Government Office for Eastern Region. 4th September 1998.