xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"

Statutory Instruments

2000 No. 38

HIGHWAYS, ENGLAND

The A40 Trunk Road (Park Royal Slip Roads) Order 2000

Made

7th January 2000

Coming into force

6th March 2000

The Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions makes this Order in exercise of powers conferred by section 10 of the Highways Act 1980(1) and now vested in him(2), and of all other powers enabling him in that behalf:–

1.  This Order may be cited as the A40 Trunk Road (Park Royal Slip Roads) Order 2000 and shall come into force on 6th March 2000.

2.  For the purpose of connecting the trunk road with another highway, so as to effect a junction at the place stated in the Schedule to this Order, the Secretary of State is authorised to construct along the routes described in the said Schedule, new highways. Those new highways shall become trunk roads as from the date when this Order comes into force.

3.  The centre line of each of the new slip roads is indicated by heavy black lines on the deposited plan.

4.  In this Order–

(i)“the plan” means the plan folio numbered HA 065/010/000006 marked “The A40 Trunk Road (Park Royal Slip Roads) Order 2000”, signed by authority of the Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions and deposited at the Highways Agency, St Christopher House, Southwark Street, London SE1 0TE;

(ii)“the trunk road” means the A40 Trunk Road, known locally as Western Avenue; and

(iii)“the new slip roads” means the new highways which the Secretary of State is authorised to construct by article 2 of this Order.

Signed by authority of the Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions

K. A. Gallagher

A Divisional Director in the Highways Agency

7th January 2000

THE SCHEDULEROUTES OF THE NEW SLIP ROADS

Three routes, numbered 1, 2 and 3 on the plan, which connect the eastbound carriageway of the trunk road with the new Western Gateway Access Road (as proposed to be constructed to provide access to the FIRSTCENTRAL PARK Development in the London Borough of Brent).

(2)

S.I. 1997/2971.