The A45 Trunk Road (Packington Crossroads Junction Improvement Slip Roads) Order 2001

Statutory Instruments

2001 No. 1545

HIGHWAYS, ENGLAND AND WALES

The A45 Trunk Road (Packington Crossroads Junction Improvement Slip Roads) Order 2001

Made

23 April 2001

Coming into force

17 May 2001

The Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions 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 A45 Trunk Road (Packington Crossroads Junction Improvement Slip Roads) Order 2001 and shall come into force on 17 May 2001.

2.  In this Order—

(1) all measurements of distance are measured along the route of the relevant highway;

(2) (i) “the slip roads” means the new highways which the Secretary of State proposes to construct along the routes described in the Schedule to this Order and which connect the trunk road with other highways at the places stated in that Schedule;

(ii) “the trunk road” means the A45 Trunk Road in the Metropolitan Borough of Solihull and the County of Warwickshire; and

(iii) “the plan” means the plan numbered HA 10/PS/201 marked “The A45 Trunk Road (Packington Crossroads Junction Improvement Slip Roads) Order 2001”, signed by authority of the Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions and deposited at DETR Records Management Branch, Floor 13 (IMD), Ashdown House, St. Leonards On Sea, Hastings, East Sussex TN37 7GA.

3.  The slip roads shall become trunk roads from the date when this Order comes into force.

4.  The centre line of each of the slip roads is indicated by a heavy black line on the plan.

Signed by authority of the Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions

Robert Bannon

Divisional Director Highways Agency

23 April 2001

SCHEDULE ROUTES OF THE SLIP ROADS

The routes of the slip roads are as follows:—

(a) a route to connect Maxstoke Lane C15 (as proposed to be improved by the Secretary of State) with the eastbound carriageway of the A45 trunk road at Meriden, from the point of the existing junction of Maxstoke Lane and the A45 for a distance of 180 metres eastwards, to a point on the A45, 130 metres south of “Old Hall Farm” (the slip road along this route being given the number 1 on the plan), and

(b) a route to connect the westbound carriageway of the A45 trunk road with Maxstoke Lane C15 (which the Secretary of State proposes to divert) at Meriden, from a point on the A45, 320 metres north of “The Firs” for a distance of 170 metres westwards, to a point on the diverted Maxstoke Lane C15 (15 metres west of the existing Maxstoke Lane/A45 junction) the slip road along this route being given the number 2 on the plan).

(1)

1980 c. 66.

(2)

S.I. 1997/2971.