TOWN AND COUNTRY PLANNING ACT 1990

Highway at Wharf Street and part of Portland Street, Aston, Birmingham

The Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions hereby gives notice that he has made an Order, under section 247 of the above Act, entitled “The Stopping-up of Highways (City of Birmingham) (No. 11) Order 1998” authorising the stopping-up of the entire length of Wharf Street and part of Portland Street, Aston, Birmingham, and requiring the provision of new highway shown as stippled on the deposited plan.
  The Order as made, will authorise the stopping-up only to enable the development described in the Schedule to this notice to be carried out in accordance with the planning permission granted by Birmingham Heartlands Development Corporation on 12th August 1997, under Ref. H/02615/97/FUL.
  Copies of this Order may be obtained, free of charge, on application to the Government Office for the West Midlands, at the offices of the Director, Planning, Transport and Environment, 77 Paradise Circus, Queensway, Birmingham B1 2DT, (quoting 5104/35/1/117) and may be inspected at all reasonable hours at the offices of Birmingham City Council, Baskerville House, Broad Street, Birmingham BN1 2NA.
  Any person aggrieved by the Order and desiring to question the validity thereof, or of any provison contained therein, on the grounds that it is not within the powers of the above Act or that any requirement of that Act or any regulation made thereunder has not been complied with in relation to the Order, may, within 6 weeks of 18th September 1998, apply to the High Court for the suspension or quashing of the Order or of any provision contained therein.
S. M. Todd, a Grade 7 Officer, Planning, Transport and Environment, Government Office for the West Midlands.

Schedule

  Erection of new finishing plant and office building, closure of Wharf Street and part of Portland Street and erection of canopy over most of Wharf Street.