The A1 Trunk Road (Wetherby to Kirk Deighton New Junction and Connecting Roads) Order 1994

Statutory Instruments

1994 No. 2515

HIGHWAYS, ENGLAND AND WALES

The A1 Trunk Road (Wetherby to Kirk Deighton New Junction and Connecting Roads) Order 1994

Made

22nd September 1994

Coming into force

21st October 1994

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.  This Order may be cited as the A1 Trunk Road (Wetherby to Kirk Deighton New Junction and Connecting Roads) Order 1994 and shall come into force on 21st October 1994.

2.  In this Order:

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

(2) (i) “the main new 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 main new road and the slip roads;

(iii) “the deposited plan” means the plan numbered HA10/YHCPD62, marked “The A1 Trunk Road (Wetherby to Kirk Deighton New Junction and Connecting Roads) Order 1994”, signed by authority of the Secretary of State and deposited at the Department of Transport, Romney House, 43 Marsham Street, London SW1P 3PY; 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 main new road with other highways or proposed highways at the places stated in that Schedule.

3.  The main new 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 the 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.

R. R. Bineham

Deputy Director, Yorkshire and Humberside, Construction Programme Division

22nd September 1994

SCHEDULE 1 ROUTE OF THE MAIN NEW ROAD

The route of the main new road is 542 metres in length, from a point on the A1 Trunk Road 164 metres north of its junction with Carr Lane in the City of Leeds in the County of West Yorkshire (marked 'A' on the deposited plan) then northwards to a point 164 metres north of Sandbeck Lane in the District of Harrogate in the County of North Yorkshire (marked 'B' on the deposited plan).

SCHEDULE 2 ROUTES OF THE SLIP ROADS

(a)

A route to connect the northbound carriageway of the main new road with a roundabout to be constructed as part of the Kirk Deighton New Junction (the slip road along this route being given the reference number 1 on the deposited plan), and

(b)

a route to connect the southbound carriageway of the main new road with the roundabout referred to in (a) of this Schedule (the slip road along this route being given the reference number 2 on the deposited plan).

(1)

1980 c. 66.

(2)

S.I. 1981/238.