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STATUTORY INSTRUMENTS
2005 No 2080
HIGHWAYS, ENGLAND
The A419 Trunk Road (Commonhead Junction Improvement and Slip Roads) Order 2005
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Made |
6th July 2005 | |
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Coming into force |
20th July 2005 | |
The Secretary of State for Transport makes this Order in exercise of powers conferred by sections 10 and 41 of the Highways Act 1980[1] and now vested in him[2], and of all other powers enabling him in that behalf:
1.
This Order may be cited as the A419 Trunk Road (Commonhead Junction Improvement and Slip Roads) Order 2005 and shall come into force on 20th July 2005.
2.
In this Order—
(1) all measurements of distance are measured along the routes of the relevant highways;
(2)
(i) "the new main road" means the new highway which the Secretary of State proposes to construct along the route described in Schedule 1 to this Order;
(ii) "the new trunk roads" means the new main road and the slip roads;
(iii) "the plan" means the plan numbered HA10/MP/034 marked "The A419 Trunk Road (Commonhead Junction Improvement and Slip Roads) Order 2005", signed by authority of the Secretary of State for Transport and deposited at ODPM-DfT Records Management Branch, Floor 13 (IMD), Ashdown House, St Leonards on Sea, Hastings, East Sussex TN37 7GA; and
(iv) "the slip roads" means the new highways which the Secretary of State proposes to construct along the routes described in Schedule 2 to this Order, and which connect the new main road with other highways at the places stated in that Schedule.
3.
The new main road and the slip roads shall become trunk roads from the date when this Order comes into force.
4.
The centre line of each of the new trunk roads is indicated by a heavy black line on the plan.
5.
The Secretary of State directs as respects any part of a highway which crosses the route of any of the new trunk roads that—
(a) where the highway is maintainable at the public expense by a local highway authority, the part in question shall be maintained by that authority, and
(b) where the highway is not so maintainable and is not maintainable under a special enactment or by reason of tenure, enclosure or prescription, the Secretary of State shall be under no duty to maintain the part in question,
until, in either case, a date to be specified in a notice given by the Secretary of State to the highway authority for that highway. The date specified will not be later than the date on which the relevant route is opened for traffic.
Signed by authority of the Secretary of State for Transport
John Sherwood
Acting Divisional Director Major Projects National Highways Agency
6th July 2005
SCHEDULE 1
ROUTE OF THE NEW MAIN ROAD
The route of the new main road is about 1.77 kilometres (1.1 miles) overall in length from a point on the existing A419, marked A on the plan, about 880 metres north of the midpoint of the roundabout at Commonhead Junction, to a point on the A419, marked B on the plan, about 610 metres (670 yards) north of the midpoint of the motorway interchange at Junction 15 on the M4 motorway.
SCHEDULE 2
ROUTES OF THE SLIP ROADS
The routes of the slip roads are four routes (given the numbers 1, 2, 3 and 4 on the plan) to connect the new main road with the existing roundabout at Commonhead Junction and the local road network.
Notes:
[1]
1980 c. 66.back
[2]
S.I. 1981/238.back
ISBN
0 11 073218 9
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9 August 2005
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