Explanatory note

This Order vests in the Black Country Development Corporation certain land which is at present vested in the councils of the boroughs of Sandwell and Walsall, the British Waterways Board, the Severn—Trent Water Authority or any other local authority or other 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.

In some instances where the present ownership of the land to be vested is a matter of dispute between two or more of the bodies mentioned in the Schedule to this Order, the description of the land is, to that extent, duplicated in the Schedule.

The land and rights are in the area designated by the Black Country Development Corporation (Area and Constitution) Order 1987, which establishes the Black Country Development Corporation.