The Local Government Reorganisation (Property) (West Midlands) Order 1987

• Citation: S.I. 1987/1077
• Sections: 32

Section 1 Citation and commencement

This Order may be cited as the Local Government Reorganisation (Property) (West Midlands) Order 1987, and shall come into force on 22nd July 1987.

Section 2 Specified property

(1) There shall vest in each council mentioned below the property described in column 1 of the Schedule so mentioned in relation to that Council.

(2) Where any property mentioned in column (1) of a Schedule is registered with Her Majesty’s Land Registry, the relevant title number is set out in column (2).

Section 3 Specified property

The two parcels of land at the rear of 65 and 67 George Eliot Road, Coventry, registered with Her Majesty’s Land Registry under title numbers WM 298417 and WM 147727 shall vest in Coventry City Council.

Section 4 Specified property

There shall vest in each council to which property is transferred by article 2 or 3 above all rights and liabilities of the West Midlands Residuary Body acquired or incurred exclusively in connection with that property.

Section 5 Occupied dwellings

All rights and liabilities of the West Midlands Residuary Body in any property acquired or appropriated by the West Midlands County Council for or in connection with its functions relating to highways, streets and bridges and road traffic which at the making of this Order is let or licensed as a dwelling by the council of a district in the county of West Midlands shall vest in that council.

Section 6 Other property, rights and liabilities

(1) All property, rights and liabilities of the West Midlands Residuary Body in relation to each item mentioned below are hereby transferred to the council mentioned below in respect of that item–

(2) The shares transferred by paragraph (1) to Solihull Metropolitan Borough Council shall be held by that council for the joint use and benefit of itself and of the other district councils in the county of West Midlands.

Section 7 Other property, rights and liabilities

Where on 1st April 1986 by virtue of section 263 of the Highways Act 1980 any highway vested in the council of any district in West Midlands, any interest of the West Midlands Residuary Body in any land below such highway shall vest in that council.

Section 1

Birmingham Railway Museum, Warwick Road, Tyseley.

Section 2

Property on the north side of Amington Road, Tyseley (comprising the former Wilmot Breedon Block R Offices and Canteen).

Section 3

123 Hockley Street, Hockley.

Section 4

Units 5 and 6 Benson Industrial Estate, Benson Road, Hockley.

Section 5

339 Dudley Road, Winson Green.

Section 6

Property situated in Anthony Road, Saltley comprising the former Highway Depot.

Section 7

Unit 35 Bilton Industrial Estate, off Green Lane, Hawkesley.

Section 1

Derelict land reclamation site on the south-east side of Chad Road, Coseley.

Section 2

Station House, 58 Shaw Road, Dudley.

Section 1

Derelict land reclamation site on the north side of West Bromwich Street, Oldbury.

Section 2

84 High Street, West Bromwich.

Section 3

Land on the corner of Crosswells Road and Bloxidge Street, Oldbury comprising the former Highway Depot.

Section 4

33 and 35 Church Street, Oldbury.

Section 5

Tat Bank House, Tat Bank Road, Oldbury.

Section 6

Premises on the south side of Tram Way, Smethwick.

Section 7

Smethwick Enterprise Centre, Rolfe Street, Smethwick.

Section 1

Derelict land reclamation site on the north side of Leamore Lane, Hatherton, Bloxwich.

Section 2

The Engineering Training Centre, Willenhall Road, Darlaston.

Section 3

Land on the south-west junction of Western Way and Southern Way known as the Wednesbury Enterprise Centre.

Section 1

Derelict land reclamation site on the north side of Lower Horseley Fields, Wolverhampton.

Section 2

Chubb Building, Railway Street, Wolverhampton.

Section 3

Property on the north side of Lower Horseley Fields comprising Commercial Wharf.

Section 4

Queens Building, Railway Street.

Section 5

Property on the south side of Cannock Road, Wolverhampton.

Section 6

Springvale Training Centre, Millfields Road, Bilston together with a right of way, more fully described in two leases by West Midlands County Council, dated 5th July 1985, one granted to New Springvale Co-operative Ltd. and the other to Springvale Training Ltd.