The A428 Black Cat to Caxton Gibbet Development Consent Order 2022

Classification of roads, etc.

13.—(1) On the date on which each of the roads described in Part 1 (trunk roads) of Schedule 3 (classification of roads, etc.) are completed and open for traffic, it is to become a trunk road as if it had become so by virtue of an order under section 10(2)(1) (general provision as to trunk roads) of the 1980 Act specifying that date as the date on which they were to become trunk roads.

(2) On the date on which each of the roads described in Part 2 (classified roads) of Schedule 3 are completed and open for traffic, it is to become a classified road for the purpose of any enactment or instrument which refers to highways classified as classified roads as if such classification had been made under section 12(3) (general provision as to principal and classified roads) of the 1980 Act.

(3) On the date on which each of the roads described in Part 3 (unclassified roads) of Schedule 3 are completed and open for traffic, it is to become an unclassified road for the purpose of any enactment or instrument which refers to unclassified roads.

(4) On and after the date on which each of the roads specified in Part 4 (speed limits) of Schedule 3 are open for traffic, no person is to drive any motor vehicle at a speed exceeding the limit in miles per hour specified in column (3) of that Part along any lengths of that road identified in the corresponding row of column (2) of that Part.

(5) Subject to article 19 (clearways, prohibitions and restrictions), on and after a date determined by the undertaker, the restrictions specified in column (3) of Part 5 (traffic regulation measures (clearways and prohibitions)) of Schedule 3 are to apply to the lengths of road identified in the corresponding row of column (2) of that Part.

(6) On a date to be determined by the undertaker, the orders specified in column (3) of Part 6 (revocations and variations of existing traffic regulation orders) of Schedule 3 are to be varied or revoked as specified in the corresponding row of column (4) of that Part in respect of the lengths of roads specified in the corresponding row of column (2) of that Part.

(7) Unless otherwise agreed in writing with the relevant local highway authority, the footpaths, cycle tracks, footways, bridlepaths and bridleways set out in Part 7 (footpaths, cycle tracks, footways, bridlepaths and bridleways) of Schedule 3 and identified on the streets, rights of way and access plans are, subject to article 9 (limits of deviation), to be constructed by the undertaker in the specified locations and open for use on and after the date on which the last of the roads described in Parts 1 to 3 of Schedule 3 (classification of roads etc.) is completed and open for traffic or in each case on and after such earlier date as may be required pursuant to article 18(2)(a).

(8) On a date or dates to be determined by the undertaker, the roads described in Part 8 (roads to be de-trunked) of Schedule 3 are to cease to be trunk roads as if they had ceased to be trunk roads by virtue of an order made under section 10(2) of the 1980 Act specifying that date or date as the date or dates on which they were to cease to be trunk roads.

(9) The undertaker may only make a determination for the purposes of paragraph (8) with the consent of the Secretary of State, following consultation with the relevant local highway authority as to the date and as to whether the highway to be de-trunked is of a reasonably satisfactory standard for use as a local highway.

(10) The application of paragraphs (1) to (9) may be varied or revoked by any instrument made under any enactment which provides for the variation or revocation of such matters.

(11) Subject to paragraph (12) the undertaker may vary the classification of the roads, or any part of those roads, provided for in paragraphs (1), (2) and (3) and such variation may provide for any trunk road comprised in the authorised development and referred to in paragraph (1) to be classified as a special road.

(12) The undertaker must not exercise the powers conferred by paragraph (11) unless the undertaker has—

(a) given not less than four weeks’ notice in writing of the undertaker’s intention to do so to the chief officer of police and to the relevant local highway authority in whose area the road is situated; and

(b) published a notice, declaring the date on which that road or part of it is to be classified, not less than seven days before that date, in at least one local newspaper circulating in the area in which the road or, as the case may be, the relevant part of it is situated and in the London Gazette.

(13) Before exercising the powers conferred by paragraph (11) the undertaker must consult such persons as the undertaker considers necessary and appropriate and must take into consideration any representations made to the undertaker by any such person.

(14) Any roads classified as a special road in accordance with paragraph (11) are, on and from the date on which they are so classified, to be—

(a) classified as special roads for the purpose of any enactment or instrument which refers to highways classified as special roads; and

(b) provided for the use of traffic of Classes I and II(2) of the classes of traffic set out in Schedule 4 (classes of traffic for purposes of special roads) to the 1980 Act.

(15) The restrictions provided for in paragraph (5) do not apply to an authorised vehicle where the vehicle is excepted from the restrictions in column (3) of Part 5 of Schedule 3.

(16) In paragraph (15), “authorised vehicle” means a vehicle specified by the undertaker from time to time.

(17) No later than the expiry of the period of 12 weeks beginning with the day on which the relevant local highway authority becomes responsible for the maintenance of a footpath, cycle track, footway, bridlepath or bridleway referred to in paragraph (7), the undertaker must provide the relevant local highway authority with material specifying the location of the completed footpath, cycle track, footway, bridlepath or bridleway.

(1)

Section 10(2) was amended by section 22 of the 1991 Act, and by section 1(6) of, and paragraph 10(2) of Schedule 1 to, the Infrastructure Act 2015 (c. 7).

(2)

Classes I and II were amended by section 4 of, and paragraph 21(3) of Schedule 3 to, the Road Traffic (Consequential Provisions) Act 1988 (c. 54).