Statutory Instrument 1988 No. 1967

The Liverpool and Wirral Urban Development Area Order 1988

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1988 No. 1967

URBAN DEVELOPMENT

The Liverpool and Wirral Urban Development Area Order 1988

The Secretary of State for the Environment, in exercise of the powers conferred on him by sections 134 and 139(1) of the Local Government, Planning and Land Act 1980^[1] and of all other powers enabling him in that behalf, being satisfied, for the purposes of section 139(1), that there are exceptional circumstances which render it expedient that the functions of an urban development corporation for the area designated by this order should be performed by an urban development corporation established for the purposes of another area, after consultation with that corporation pursuant to section 139(4) of the Act, hereby makes the following Order:

Citation and commencement
    1.    This Order may be cited as the Liverpool and Wirral Urban Development Area Order 1988 and shall come into force on the day after the day on which it is approved by resolution of each House of Parliament.

Interpretation
    2.    In this Order, "the map" means the map entitled "Map referred to in the Liverpool and Wirral Urban Development Area Order 1988", of which prints signed by an Under Secretary in the Department of the Environment, are deposited and available for inspection at the offices of the Secretary of State for the Environment and the offices of the councils of the city of Liverpool and the borough of Wirral.

Designation of urban development area
    3.    The area comprising the three areas shown on the map bounded externally by a black line edged internally with a stippled band is hereby designated as an urban development area.

Exercise of functions
    4.    The functions of an urban development corporation for the area designated by article 3 shall be performed by the Merseyside Development Corporation^[2].

Nicholas Ridley

Secretary of State for the Environment

12th July 1988

This Order designates three areas totalling about 610 hectares in the city of Liverpool and the borough of Wirral and in the vicinity of the Merseyside urban development area, as an urban development area. It provides for the functions of an urban development corporation to be performed in the designated area by the Merseyside Development Corporation. The three areas are shown hatched black on the map forming part of this note.

[1] 1980 c. 65; section 134 was amended by the Housing and Planning Act 1986 (c. 63), sections 47, 49(2) and Part III of Schedule 12. back

[2] Established by the Merseyside Development Corporation (Area and Constitution) Order 1980 (S.I. 1981/481). back