The A452 Chester Road and A446 Stonebridge Road (High Speed Two (Phase One)) (Trunking) Order 2024

Statutory Instruments

2024 No. 39

Highways, England

The A452 Chester Road and A446 Stonebridge Road (High Speed Two (Phase One)) (Trunking) Order 2024

Made

8th January 2024

Coming into force

8th January 2024

The Secretary of State for Transport makes the following Order in exercise of the powers conferred by section 3 of and paragraph 13 of Schedule 4 to, the High Speed Rail (London -West Midlands) Act 2017(1)

1.  This Order may be cited as the A452 Chester Road and A446 Stonebridge Road (High Speed Two (Phase One)) (Trunking) Order 2024 and shall come into force on 8th January 2024.

2.—(1) In this Order —

(a) “nominated undertaker” means High Speed Two (HS2) Limited (Company No. 06791686), which is a company registered in England and Wales and whose Registered Office is at Two Snow Hill Queensway, Birmingham, B4 6GA;

(b) “National Highways” means National Highways Limited (Company No. 09346363), a strategic highways company, which is a company registered in England and Wales and whose Registered Office is Bridge House, 1 Walnut Tree Close, Guildford, Surrey, GU1 4LA;

(c) “the plan” means the plan numbered HS2/HAO 289 marked “The A452 Chester Road and A446 Stonebridge Road (High Speed Two (Phase One)) (Trunking) Order 202x”, signed by authority of the Secretary of State for Transport and deposited at Document Deposit Service, Communities and Local Government, Floor 13 (IMD), Ashdown House, St Leonards on Sea, Hastings, East Sussex, TN37 7GA;

(d) “the main new road” means the new highway to be constructed along the route described in Schedule 1 to this Order;

(e) “the new trunk roads” means the main new road and the slip roads;

(f) “the slip roads” means the new highways to be constructed along the routes described in Schedules 2 to 4 to this Order and which connect the main new road with other highways at the places stated in the Schedules.

(2) all measurements of distance are measured along the route of the relevant highway.

3.—(1) The lengths of the roads described in the Schedules to this Order shall become trunk roads from the date on which the nominated undertaker notifies Solihull Metropolitan Borough Council that the main new road is open for traffic (or from the date on which this Order comes into force, if later).

(2) National Highways will be the highway authority for each new trunk road.

Signed by authority of the Secretary of State for Transport

Martin Gilmour

A Senior Civil Servant

in the Department for Transport

8th January 2024

SCHEDULE 1 A446 The Main New Road

The route of the main new road commences from the new roundabout (“southern roundabout”), the centre of which is 900 metres south east of the northbound slip road of the A446/A452 over the M42, at its junction with the A452 Chester Road Northbound slip road (marked B on the plan) and extends in a north westerly direction to a point on the new at grade roundabout (which replaces the A452/A446 roundabout (over the M42)) (“northern roundabout”) at its junction with the A446 Stonebridge Road northbound slip road (marked D on the plan).

The main new road includes the whole of the circulatory carriageway of the new roundabouts.

SCHEDULE 2 A452 Chester Road Northbound Slip Road

The route of the first slip road is 421 metres in length, commencing from its junction with the new southern roundabout (marked B on the plan) and extending in a south easterly direction to a point on the A446 Stonebridge Road/A452 Chester Road 221 metres northwest of the centre line of the bridge carrying the A452 Chester Road over Packington Lane (marked A on the plan).

SCHEDULE 3 A452 Chester Road Southbound Slip Road

The route of the second slip road is 550 metres in length, commencing from its junction with the new southern roundabout (marked F on the plan) and extending in a south easterly direction to a point on the A452 Chester Road 155 metres north of the junction of Packington Lane (marked C on the plan).

SCHEDULE 4 A446 Stonebridge Road Northbound Slip Road

The route of the third slip road is 356 metres in length, commencing from its junction with the new northern roundabout (marked D on the plan), and extending in a north easterly direction to a point 108 metres north of the bridge carrying the existing Southbound slip road over the A446 Stonebridge Road (marked E on the plan).

EXPLANATORY NOTE

(This note is not part of the Order)

This Order establishes the main new road forming a link road between the A452 Chester Road Northbound and Southbound Slip Roads and the A446 Stonebridge Road Northbound and existing Southbound Slip Roads, in the Metropolitan Borough of Solihull, and Warwickshire County Council, and for National Highways Limited, as a strategic highways company, to become the highway authority for those trunk roads as from the date on which the new trunk roads are open to traffic (or from the date on which this Order comes into force, if later).

The main new road comprises the southern part of Work No. 3/22G. The main new road commences at the junction with the northern and southern parts of Work No. 3/22, Work No. 3/22E, Work No. 3/22F and the High Speed Two Interchange station access roads. This circulatory carriageway of this junction is carried by the two bridges over the High Speed Two (Phase One) railway (Work No. 3/1), but the structure of those bridges does not form part of the trunk road.

The first new slip road comprises of Work No. 3/22E authorised by the High Speed Rail (London - West Midlands) Act 2017.

The second new slip road comprises the southern part of Work No. 3/22 authorised by the High Speed Rail (London – West Midlands) Act 2017.

The third new slip road comprises the northern part of Work No. 3/22G authorised by the High Speed Rail (London – West Midlands) Act 2017.

The “Work No.” references above are as shown on the plan and as described in Schedule 1 to the High Speed Rail (London – West Midlands) Act 2017.

(1)

2017 c. 7.