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Statutory Instruments
HIGHWAYS, ENGLAND AND WALES
Made
5th July 1991
Coming into force
25th July 1991
1. The new highways which the Secretary of State proposes to construct:—
(a)along the route described in Schedule 1 to this Order (the highway along this route being in this Order referred to as “the main new trunk road”); and
(b)along the routes described in Schedule 2 to this Order which connect the main new trunk road with other highways at the places stated in that Schedule (the highways along these routes being in this Order referred to as “the slip roads”),
shall become trunk roads as from the date when this Order comes into force.
2. The centre line of each of the new trunk roads is indicated by a heavy black line on the deposited plan.
3. 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 a highway 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 a highway 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 the purpose of through traffic.
4. In this Order—
(a)all measurements of distance are measured along the route of the relevant highway;
(b)(i)“the deposited plan” means the plan contained in the plans folio numbered GLRT 065/5010/10/035/1, marked “The A40 Trunk Road (Gipsy Corner Junction Improvement, Trunk Road and Slip Roads) Order 1991”, signed by authority of the Secretary of State and deposited at the Department of Transport, Romney House, 43 Marsham Street, London SW1P 3PY;
(ii)“the new trunk roads” means the main new trunk road and the slip roads; and
(iii)“the trunk road” means the part of the A40 Trunk Road known as Western Avenue.
5. This Order shall come into force on 25th July 1991 and may be cited as the A40 Trunk Road (Gipsy Corner Junction Improvement, Trunk Road and Slip Roads) Order 1991.
Signed by authority of the Secretary of State for Transport
I. Yass
A Grade 3 Officer in the
Department of Transport
5th July 1991
The route of the main new trunk road is a route at Acton in the London Borough of Ealing about 0.40 kilometres in length, commencing at a point on the trunk road 49 metres south-east of its junction with Allan Way, proceeding in a south-easterly direction, and ending at a point 9 metres north of the northern boundary of Leamington Park at its junction with the trunk road (the main new trunk road along this route being given the reference number 1 on the deposited plan).
The routes of the slip roads are four routes to connect the south-eastbound and the northwestbound carriageways of the main new trunk road with a roundabout to be constructred under the main new trunk road at the junction of Victoria Road and Horn Lane with the trunk road at Acton (the new trunk roads along these routes being respectively given the reference numbers 2, 3, 4 and 5 on the deposited plan).
S.I. 1981/238.