QSR1914/3/10/1a (i) (ii) (iii) (iv) (v)

Luton Borough Petty Sessions No. 1. Certificate of Justices View of a certain Highway or Footpath at Cowridge End in the Borough of Luton in the County of Bedford proposed to be diverted and stopped up.

May 1914

From: 1914 To: 1914

Borough of Luton. No 1. Whereas on the 6th of December 1910 the Mayor Aldermen & Burgesses of the Borough of Luton in the County of Bedford in Council assembled on application made by or on behalf of the Luton Land Co Ltd whose registered Office is at 21 Market Hill Luton, resolve that John William Tomlinson the surveyor for the highways in the Borough of Luton to be authorised to give all notices & do all things legally necessary to lead to the stopping up as useless & unnecessary (in view of the proposed substituted footpath to be made as hereinafter referred to) diversion of a portion of the Public Highway or Footpath in the Borough of Luton leading from the North East corner of the Peoples Park to Stockingstone Lane at Cowridge End by stopping up entirely a portion of the highway or footpath at the North East Corner of the Peoples park aforesaid marked 'G' on the plan, then proceeding in a northerly direction for 50 yards & then in a north easterly direction for 278 yards to the point marked 'E' on the said plan in Stockingstone Lane & that in lieu of the said highway or footpath so to be stopped up a new Public Highway be provided commencing at point marked 'G' above mentioned at the North East corner of the Peoples Park & proceeding in a straight line in a northerly direction for a distance of 54 yards to the point marked 'L' on the said plan, then in a north easterly direction crossing a newly made street called Richmond Hill at the point marke 'K' on the plan, then continuing for distance of 136 yards to a point marked 'J' on the plan in a new road proposed to be laid out & called Norfolk Crescent the in a Northerly direction by Cowridge End Farmhouse to & terminating at point 'E' in Stockingstone Lane a further distance of 193 yards. Whereas in pursuance of an application by John William Tomlinson the surveyor of & for the said Borough & Herbert Owen William & Robert Smith Tomson Esquires, Justices of the Peace for the said Borough on 9th April 1914 in the presence of each other viewed the portion of the highway described to be stopped & agreed it appeared that this portion of highway will not inconvenience to the public because the new highway proposed by the Luton Land Co. Ltd will be more convenient & more commodious than the portion being stopped. Whereas we the justices on the 9th April last did direct the surveyor of the highways for the said Borough to affix & in pursuance of such directions in that behalf the surveyor for 4 successive weeks publish a notice to the effect of Schedule no 19 to the statute in that case made & provide in legible characters at the place & by the side of each end of the public highway hereinbefore described as being stopped up & thereby gave notice that on 1st July next application would be made to his Majesty's Justices of the Peace assembled at Quarter Sessions in the county of Bedford for an order for stopping up the section of highway so resolved to be stopped up & that the certificate of 2 Justices having viewed the same & proof given to their satisfaction of the several notices required by the statute having been published with the plan would be lodged with the Clerk of the Peace for the County of Bedford on or before 30th May 1914. The surveyor in pursuance of the directions to him by us in that behalf for 4 successive weeks next after we the said Justices so viewed the said Highway, on the 16th, 23rd & 30th days of April & 7th May 1914 respectively insert the same notice as last after & the same notice for 4 successive weeks in a certain newspaper the 'Luton News' published on the dates mentioned, being a newspaper published & circulated in the borough, & also on 4 successive Sundays, 12th , 19th, 26th April & 3rd May 1914 affix a like notice to the doors of the Luton Parish Church & St Matthews Parish Church Luton.

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Tomlinson, John William,
Williams, Herbert Owen,
Tomson, Robert Smith

LUTON, BEDFORD, Luton People's Park, Luton Stockingstone Lane, highway