The Birmingham Heartlands Development Corporation (Area and Constitution) Order 1992

Statutory Instruments

1992 No. 584

URBAN DEVELOPMENT

The Birmingham Heartlands Development Corporation (Area and Constitution) Order 1992

Approved by both Houses of Parliament

Made

12th February 1992

Laid before Parliament

17th February 1992

Coming into force

10th March 1992

The Secretary of State for the Environment, in exercise of the powers conferred on him by sections 134 and 135 of, and paragraph 1 of Schedule 26 to, the Local Government, Planning and Land Act 1980(1), 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 Birmingham Heartlands Development Corporation (Area and Constitution) Order 1992 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 Birmingham Heartlands Development Corporation (Area and Constitution) Order 1992”, 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 council of the city of Birmingham.

Designation of urban development area

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

Establishment of the Birmingham Heartlands Development Corporation

4.  For the purposes of regenerating the designated area there is hereby established an urban development corporation named “The Birmingham Heartlands Development Corporation” with eleven members in addition to the chairman and deputy chairman.

Michael Heseltine

Secretary of State for the Environment

12th February 1992

Explanatory Note

(This note is not part of the Order)

This Order designates an area totalling about 1000 hectares in the city of Birmingham as an urban development area and establishes an urban development corporation to regenerate the area. The area is shown hatched black on the map forming part of this note.

The development corporation is to be called the Birmingham Heartlands Development Corporation, and have 11 members besides the chairman and deputy chairman.

(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.