The Council of the City of Sunderland (“the Council”) hereby give notice that they have made and submitted to the Secretary of State for Transport for confirmation, an Order made under Sections 14 and 125 of the Highways Act 1980 authorising the Council to:-

(a) improve the lengths of highway named in the Schedule to the Order and shown on the Site Plan which accompanies the Order by cross hatching

(b) stop up each length of highway named in the Schedule to the Order and shown on the Site Plan by zebra hatching;

(c) construct a new highway along each route whose centre line is shown on the Site Plan by a solid black line surrounded by stipple;

(d) stop up each private means of access to premises described in the Schedule to the Order and shown on the Site Plan by a solid black band; and

(e) provide new means of access to premises at each location shown on the Site Plan by thin diagonal hatching.

All on or in the vicinity of the route of the classified road known as and being:-

(i) the highway which the Council propose to construct from the junction of Woodbine Terrace and Ditchburn Terrace south-eastwards for 490 metres then north-eastwards for 310 metres then eastwards for 330 metres then southwards for 220 metres.

(ii) A1231 Trimdon Street which the Council propose to improve from its junction with Trimdon Street West to its junction with Silksworth Row (a distance of 520 metres).

(iii) A1231 Silksworth Row which the Council propose to improve from its junction with Trimdon Street to its junction with St Michaels Way (a distance of 200 metres).

(iv) the highway which the Council propose to construct from the A1231 Trimdon Street/Trimdon Street West junction westwards for 85 metres.

Copies of the Order and of the relevant plans may be inspected free of charge at all reasonable hours at the Customer Services Centre, Sunderland City Council, 31-32 Fawcett Street, Sunderland.

Any person may not later than 31st October 2017 object to the confirmation of the Order by notice to the Secretary of State for Transport, National Transport Casework Team, Tyneside House, Skinnerburn Road, Newcastle Business Park, Newcastle upon Tyne, NE4 7AR stating the grounds of their objections.

Dated 14/09/2017

Irene Lucas CBE, Chief Executive,

Civic Centre, Burdon Road,

Sunderland SR2 7DN