The A419 Trunk Road (Latton Bypass and Slip Roads) Order 1994

Statutory Instruments

1994 No. 2897

HIGHWAYS, ENGLAND AND WALES

The A419 Trunk Road (Latton Bypass and Slip Roads) Order 1994

Made

14th November 1994

Coming into force

30th November 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 powers enabling him in that behalf:—

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

(a) along the routes described in Schedule 1 to this Order (“the main new trunk roads”); and

(b) along the routes described in Schedule 2 to this Order which connect the main new trunk roads 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 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:—

(1) All measurements of distance are measured along the route of the relevant highway and are approximate only; (2)

(i) “the deposited plan” means the plan numbered HA10/2/SWM87, marked “The A419 Trunk Road (Latton Bypass and Slip Roads) Order 1994”, signed by authority of the Secretary of State for Transport 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 roads and the slip roads.

5.  This Order shall come into force on 30th November 1994 and may be cited as the A419 Trunk Road (Latton Bypass and Slip Roads) Order 1994.

Signed by authority of the Secretary of State for Transport.

J D Gill

Deputy Director South West Construction Programme Division Highways Agency

14th November 1994

SCHEDULE 1 ROUTES OF THE MAIN NEW TRUNK ROADS

The routes of the main new trunk roads are routes between a point northwest of the Driffied Crossroads and the Cricklade Bypass in the Districts of Cotswold and North Wiltshire in the Counties of Gloucestershire and Wiltshire as follows:—

1.  The route given the reference number ‘1’ on the deposited plan 1.38 kilometres in length, commencing with a roundabout on the A419 Trunk Road, the centre point of that roundabout being 317 metres south east of the junction of the A419 Trunk Road with Harnhill Road (3/177), proceeding south eastwards to a point on the A419 Trunk Road 185 metres south east of its junction with Public Footpath No BDD9.

2.  The route given the reference number ‘2’ on the deposited plan 510 metres in length, commencing from the eastern side of the roundabout described in paragraph 1 above and proceeding eastwards, then south westwards, to a point on the route described in that paragraph.

3.  The route given the reference number ‘3’ on the deposited plan 2.82 kilometres in length, from a point on the A419 Trunk Road (as proposed to be improved), 107 metres south west of its junction with Bridleway No L6 to a point on the A419 Trunk Road 80 metres south east of its junction with Public Footpath No L2.

SCHEDULE 2 ROUTES OF THE SLIP ROADS

The routes of the slip roads are the following:

1.  Spine Road (B4696) Junction Four routes given the reference letters A, B, C and D on the deposited plan to connect the northbound and southbound carriageways of the improved A419 Trunk Road and the main new trunk road with the Spine Road (B4696).

2.  Marston Meysey Junction Two routes given the reference letters E and F on the deposited plan to connect the existing trunk road dual carriageway (Cricklade Bypass) with the C124 Marston Meysey Road.

(1)

1980 c. 66.

(2)

S.I. 1981/238.