Town & Country Planning

Falkirk Council

TOWN & COUNTRY PLANNING (SCOTLAND) ACT 1997

THE FALKIRK COUNCIL (FORMER MEADOWBANK FARM, SALMON INN ROAD, POLMONT) FOOTPATH DIVERSION ORDER 2005

The Falkirk Council, incorporated under the Local Government etc (Scotland) Act 1994 and having their principal offices at Municipal Buildings, Falkirk in exercise of the powers conferred upon them by Section 208 of the Town and Country Planning (Scotland) Act 1997 and all other powers enabling them in that behalf to being satisfied that it is necessary to authorise a diversion of the footpath hereinafter specified in order to enable development to be carried out in accordance with the planning permission granted under Part II of that Act and having complied with the provisions of Schedule 16 of that Act hereby made the following Order:

1.  This Order shall be cited as the Falkirk Council (Former Meadowbank Farm, Salmon Inn Road, Polmont) Footpath Diversion Order 2005 and shall come into operation on the date when the alternative footpath described in Part II of the Schedule hereto is completed and open to the public.

2.  The stopping-up of the footpath described in Part I of the Schedule hereto is hereby ordered.

3.  An alternative footpath shall be provided along the route described in Part II of the Schedule hereto.

4.  Where, immediately before the date of this Order there are any rights of statutory undertakers in respect of any apparatus of theirs which is under, in, over, along or across the footpath, such undertakers shall, after the commencement of this Order and without prejudice to the provisions of Section 224 of the Town and Country Planning (Scotland) Act 1997 as read with Section 32(3) and (4) of the Minerals Workings Act 1951, have the same rights in respect of that apparatus as they had immediately before that date.

This Order has been confirmed. A full copy of the Order together with a copy of the relative plan may be inspected at the Council’s Offices, Law and Administration Services Reception, Municipal Buildings, Falkirk and the One-Stop Shop, Callendar Square, Falkirk during normal office hours free of charge.

SCHEDULE

Part I

Footpath to be closed: That length of footpath running through the former Meadowbank Farm, Salmon Inn Road, Polmont from a point to the south of Salmon Inn Road in a south easterly direction for a distance of 150 metres or thereby.

Part II

Alternative footpath: That length of footpath running through the former Meadowbank Farm, Salmon Inn Road, Polmont from a point to the south of Salmon Inn Road in a south easterly and easterly direction for a distance of 157 metres or thereby.

Made on behalf of the Falkirk Council on the Twenty-second day of February, Two Thousand and Five.

Rose Mary Glackin, Acting Director of Law and Administration

Municipal Buildings, Falkirk FK1 5RS.