Southend-on-Sea Borough Council

DEPARTMENT FOR TRANSPORT

HIGHWAYS ACT 1980 AND ACQUISITION OF LAND ACT 1981

Notice is hereby given that Public Local Inquiries in connection with the Orders mentioned below will be held by an independent Inspector appointed for the purpose by the Secretary of State for Transport beginning at 10.00 am on Wednesday 3 March 2004 at The Council Chamber, Civic Centre, Southend-on-Sea, Essex, to hear representations from statutory objectors (as defined in the Compulsory Purchase by Non-Ministerial Acquiring Authorities (Inquiries Procedure) Rules 1990, and the Highways (Inquiries Procedure) Rules 1994), from any other persons having an interest in the land the subject of the Compulsory Purchase Order, and at his discretion, to hear representations from any other persons who may desire to appear and be heard. The Orders are Orders which have been made by Southend-on-Sea Borough Council under the above-mentioned Acts and submitted to the Secretary of State for Transport for confirmation and are: (1) The Southend-on-Sea Borough Council A127/A1159 Priory Crescent and Cuckoo Corner Improvement Side Roads Order 2003. This is an Order under sections 14 and 125 of the Highways Act 1980, which, if confirmed, will authorise Southend-on-Sea Borough Council to: (a) carry out the improvement of highways; (b) stop up private means of access to premises; and (c) provide new means of access to premises; all in relation to the classified road being the highway which the Council proposes to improve from the junction of the A127/A1159 known as Cuckoo Corner running generally eastwards for a distance of 870 metres along Priory Crescent and part of Eastern Avenue in the Borough of Southend-on-Sea. (2) The Southend-on-Sea Borough Council A127/A1159 Priory Crescent and Cuckoo Corner Improvement Compulsory Purchase Order 2003. This is an Order under sections 239, 240, 246, 249 and 250 of the Highways Act 1980 and under section 2 of the Acquisition of Land Act 1981, which, if confirmed, will authorise Southend-on-Sea Borough Council to purchase compulsorily the land and rights over land described therein for the purpose of: (a) the improvement of the classified road described in (1) above; (b) the improvement of highways and the provision of new means of access to premises in pursuance of the Side Roads Order mentioned at (1) above; (c) the carrying out of works on watercourses in connection with the above works; (d) use by the said Council in connection with the above works; (e) the improvement or development of frontages; and (f) to mitigate the adverse effects which the existence or use of the highways proposed to be constructed or improved will have on their surroundings. Copies of the above-mentioned Orders and of the plans referred to therein have been deposited and may be seen at all reasonable hours, free of charge, at the offices of Southend-on-Sea Borough Council at the Reception, Floor 10, Civic Centre, Victoria Avenue, Southend-on-Sea, Essex. Copies of any proofs of evidence, sent to or by the promoting authority are also available for inspection at the offices of Southend-on-Sea Borough Council from 11 February 2004. Proceedings on the above-mentioned Orders are being taken concurrently by virtue of section 257 of the Highways Act 1980. The Secretary of State for Transport hereby directs that any person who intends to submit at the Inquiries that any highway or proposed highway to which the Orders or either of them relate should follow an alternative route, or that, instead of improving, diverting or altering a highway to which the Orders or either of them relate a new highway should be constructed on a particular route, shall send to him at Local Authority Orders, Department for Transport, Government Office for the North East, Wellbar House, Gallowgate, Newcastle upon Tyne NE1 4TD, not later than 11 February 2004, sufficient information about the alternative route or the route of the new highway, as the case may be, to enable it to be identified. Failure to comply with this direction will entitle the Secretary of State and the person holding the Inquiries to disregard so much of any objection as consists of such a submission. M Grieveson, Higher Executive Officer, Local Authority Orders, Department for Transport, Government Office for the North East, 7th Floor, Wellbar House, Gallowgate, Newcastle upon Tyne NE1 4TD. (Ref DN5055/55/7/15 and DN5055/60/1/33). 21 January 2004.