The Leeds Development Corporation (Vesting of Land) (General) Order 1989

Statutory Instruments

1989 No. 1404

URBAN DEVELOPMENT

The Leeds Development Corporation (Vesting of Land) (General) Order 1989

Approved by both Houses of Parliament

Made

7th June 1989

Laid before Parliament

14th June 1989

Coming into force

28th July 1989

The Secretary of State for the Environment, being also the appropriate Minister (in the case of land vested in the statutory undertakers mentioned in the Schedule to this Order) for the purposes of section 141(3) of the Local Government, Planning and Land Act 1980(1), in exercise of the powers conferred on him by section 141(1) and (3) of that Act and of all other powers enabling him in that behalf, hereby makes the following Order:

Citation and commencement

1.  This Order may be cited as the Leeds Development Corporation (Vesting of Land) (General) Order 1989 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.—(1) In this Order—

“the Corporation” means the Leeds Development Corporation;

“statutory undertakers” does not include any statutory undertakers in relation to whom the Secretary of State for the Environment is not the appropriate Minister;

“urban development area” means the area designated as an urban development area by the Leeds Development Corporation (Area and Constitution) Order 1988(2).

(2) Any reference in this Order to a map followed immediately by a number is a reference to the map so numbered in the set of maps numbered 1 and 2 entitled “Maps referred to in the Leeds Development Corporation (Vesting of Land) (General) Order 1989”, 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, the British Waterways Board, the council of the city of Leeds, the West Yorkshire Residuary Body and the Corporation.

(3) Any reference in this Order to a numbered plot is a reference to the plot so numbered and shown bounded externally with a black line and either stippled or edged internally with a stippled band on a numbered map.

Vesting of land

3.  The land described in the Schedule hereto and now vested in a body mentioned in the Schedule or in any other local authority or statutory undertakers or other public body in a subsidiary of any of them, being land within the urban development area, is hereby vested in the Corporation.

Easements and rights in or over land

4.  All existing easements and rights in or over other land within the urban development area which are vested in an authority or body mentioned in article 3 above, and which are annexed or appurtenant to land vested by that article or any part thereof, are hereby vested in the Corporation.

Nicholas Ridley

Secretary of State for the Environment

7th June 1989

Article 3

THE SCHEDULE LAND VESTED IN THE CORPORATION

PART I LAND OF LEEDS CITY COUNCIL

Plot Number
1	Approximately 0.64 hectares of land at South Accommodation Road, in the city of Leeds, shown on map 1.
2	Approximately 1.22 hectares of land at Low Road, in the city of Leeds, shown on map 1.

PART 2 LAND OF THE BRITISH WATERWAYS BOARD

3	Approximately 0.49 hectares of land at Goodman Street and Larchfield Road, in the city of Leeds, shown on map 1.
4	Approximately 4.15 hectares of land at Yarn Street and Old Mill Lane, in the city of Leeds, shown on map 1.

PART 3 LAND OF THE WEST YORKSHIRE RESIDUARY BODY

5	Approximately 6.50 hectares of land at Meadow Road and Dewsbury Road, in the city of Leeds, shown on map 2.

Explanatory Note

(This note is not part of the Order)

This Order vests in the Leeds Development Corporation certain land which is at present vested in the council of the city of Leeds, the British Waterways Board, the West Yorkshire Residuary Body (or in another body mentioned in section 141(1) of the Local Government, Planning and Land Act 1980), and related easements and similar rights. The land is shown coloured black on the map forming part of this note.

The land and rights are in the area designated by the Leeds Development Corporation (Area and Constitution) Order 1988, which establishes the Leeds Development Corporation.

(1)

1980 c. 65; as to “appropriate Minister” see section 170(3).

(2)

S.I. 1988/1145