The Urban Development Corporations in England (Area and Constitution) Order 1998

Explanatory Note

(This note is not part of the Order)

This Order revokes the Orders which designated the urban development areas in Birmingham Heartlands, the Black Country, London Docklands, Merseyside, Plymouth, Teesside, Trafford Park, and Tyne and Wear and which established urban development corporations for those areas. Articles 2 and 3 of each of those Orders, which designated the areas, are revoked from 3rd April 1998 and the remainder is revoked from 1st July 1998 (article 2(1) and (3)).

This Order also revokes, from 3rd April 1998, the Liverpool and Wirral Urban Development Area Order 1988, the London Docklands Development Corporation (Area and Constitution) (Amendment) Order 1981 and the Wolverhampton Urban Development Area Order 1988, which altered the extent of the Merseyside, London Docklands and Black Country urban development areas respectively (article 2(2)).

This Order also revokes, from 1st July 1998, Orders which vested land in the urban development corporations in England (article 3 and the Schedule).