The Derelict Land Clearance Area (Reading) Order 2000

Statutory Instruments

2000 No. 3270

DERELICT LAND

The Derelict Land Clearance Area (Reading) Order 2000

Made

11th December 2000

Laid before Parliament

20th December 2000

Coming into force

10th January 2001

The Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions, in exercise of the powers conferred upon him by section 1(7) and (8)(b) of the Derelict Land Act 1982(1) and of all other powers enabling him in that behalf, and with the consent of the Treasury, hereby makes the following Order:

Citation and commencement

1.  This Order may be cited as the Derelict Land Clearance Area (Reading) Order 2000 and shall come into force on 10th January 2001.

Specification of locality

2.  Subsections (1) to (6) of section 1 of the Derelict Land Act 1982 shall have effect in relation to land in the borough of Reading which is in the locality bounded by:

(i) the south east kerb line of Coley Avenue from its junction with Berkeley Avenue (A4) to its junction with Castle Hill (A4155);

(ii) the south kerb line of Castle Hill (A4155) from its junction with Coley Avenue to its junction with the A33 and Castle Street at the roundabout;

(iii) the west kerb line of the A33 from its junction with Castle Street and Castle Hill at the roundabout to the point where it meets the northern end of Brook Street West and then the west kerb line of Brook Street West to its junction with Garnet Street and then the western bank of the Holy Brook to the point where the bridge carrying Berkeley Avenue (A4) crosses it;

(iv) the northern kerb line of Berkeley Avenue (A4) from its junction with Coley Avenue to the western bank of the Holy Brook;

as those subsections have effect in relation to land in a development area or intermediate area.

Signed by authority of the Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions

Beverley Hughes

Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State,

Department of the Environment, Transport and the Regions

7th December 2000

We consent,

Clive Betts

Jim Dowd

Two of the Lords Commissioners of Her Majesty’s Treasury

11th December 2000

Explanatory Note

(This note is not part of the Order)

The Secretary of State may pay grant towards the costs of acquiring, surveying and carrying out works on land which is derelict, neglected or unsightly. Grant may also be paid to a local authority for works to prevent the actual or apprehended collapse of the surface as a result of certain mining operations.

The maximum rates at which grant is payable in the case of intermediate areas or development areas are higher than the rates which are payable elsewhere. A higher rate of grant is also payable in localities specified by order.

This Order specifies for this purpose a locality at Coley in the borough of Reading where disused chalk mines have caused actual or apprehended collapse of the land.

(1)

1982 c. 42.