The A6 Trunk Road (Clapham Bypass) Order 1992

Statutory Instruments

1992 No. 3354

HIGHWAYS, ENGLAND AND WALES

The A6 Trunk Road (Clapham Bypass) Order 1992

Made

22nd December 1992

Coming into force

21st January 1993

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 enabling powers:—

1.  The new highways which the Secretary of State proposes to construct—

(a) along the route described in Schedule 1 to this Order (“the main new trunk road”), and

(b) along the routes described in Schedule 2 to this Order to connect the main new trunk road with other highways at the places stated in that schedule (“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 a new trunk road that—

(a) where a 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 a 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;

(i) “the deposited plan”	means the site plan contained in the plan folio numbered HA10/2E/334 marked “The A6 Trunk Road (Clapham Bypass) Order 1992”, 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 highways mentioned in article 1 of this Order and “a new trunk road” means one of those highways;
(iii) “the Trunk Road”	means the London—Carlisle Trunk Road (A6).

5.  This Order shall come into force on 21st January 1993 and may be cited as the A6 Trunk Road (Clapham Bypass) Order 1992.

Signed by the authority of the Secretary of State for Transport

Peter Emms

Regional Director Eastern Region

Department of Transport

22nd December 1992

SCHEDULE 1

Route of the Main New Trunk Road

A route about 4.6 kilometres in length starting at a point on the Trunk Road 260 metres north of the Manton Lane roundabout, proceeding in a northerly direction to the east of the London—Sheffield railway line and to the west of the village of Clapham to terminate at a point on the Trunk Road about 160 metres south of the entrance to “The Gables” in Milton Ernest. The route includes one roundabout at the southern end.

SCHEDULE 2

Routes of the Slip Roads

Junction with Oakley Road.

1.  A two-way route between the southbound carriageway of the main new trunk road and the realigned section of Oakley Road, numbered 3 on the deposited plan, and a two-way route between Oakley Road and the northbound carriageway of the main new trunk road, numbered 4 on the deposited plan.

Junction with Highfield Road.

2.  A route between Highfield Road and the southbound carriageway of the main new trunk road, numbered 1 on the deposited plan, and a two-way route between the northbound carriageway of the main new trunk road and Highfield Road, numbered 2 on the deposited plan.

(1)

1980 c. 66.

(2)

S.I. 1981/238.