TOWN AND COUNTRY PLANNING ACT 1990

Notice of Public Path Order

The County of Northamptonshire (Church Farm, Bozeat) (Footpaths) Temporary Diversion Order 199

Notice is hereby given, in accordance with section 252 of the Town and Country Planning Act 1990, that the Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions, in exercise of the powers conferred on him by sections 247, 253 and 261 of the Town and Country Planning Act 1990, and all other powers enabling him in that behalf, proposes to make a temporary footpath diversion Order if planning permission is granted by him for the extraction of minerals by surface working.
  The effect of the Order will be to divert, for a period not exceeding 18 years, a length of footpath TA4 from Grid Reference SP 4893 2599 at its junction with footpath TA1, running north for 170 metres and then northeast for 780 metres to a point 70 metres from its junction with Boat TF15 at Grid Reference SP 4897 2607 onto a new line commencing at the junction with TA1 Grid Reference SP 4893 2599 and running north by northwest along the line of TA1 to its junction with footpath TF11 then east by northeast following the southern bank of the tributary to rejoin the line of TA4 70 metres from its junction with Boat TF15 SP 4897 2607, the lines and situations of the existing and proposed alternative highway are shown on the map annexed to the Order.
  Notice is also hereby given that a public inquiry is to be held in connection with the Secretary of State’s proposal to divert the said footpaths. The inquiry will be held at the County Hall, Northampton, on 4th November 1998, at 10 a.m. by a person appointed by the Secretary of State for that purpose. This inquiry will be held jointly with the Public Local Inquiry into the appeal by Pioneer Aggregates PLC against the non determination of a Planning Application for extraction of minerals by surface working at Church Farm, Bozeat, near Wellingborough, Northamptonshire.
  A copy of the draft Order and the map contained in it may be inspected by any person, free of charge, at the offices of the Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions, the Government Office for the East Midlands, the Belgrave Centre, Stanley Place, Talbot Street, Nottingham NG1 5GG, the Offices of Northamptonshire County Council, County Hall, Northampton, Northamptonshire NN1 1AW, and the Sub-Post Office, Camden Square, Bozeat, Wellingborough, Northamptonshire NN29 7JH, at normal opening hours, during a period of 28 days from 10thAugust 1998.
  Any person may, within that period, object to the making of the Order by notice in writing to the Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions at the above address, quoting Ref. EMP 2800/529/1 and stating the ground(s) on which the objection is made.
W. Webster, A Senior Executive Officer in the Department of the Environment, Transport and the Regions
31st July 1998.