The A47 Trunk Road (Walpole Highway and Tilney High End Bypass and Slip Roads) Order 1992

Statutory Instruments

1992 No. 2809

HIGHWAYS, ENGLAND AND WALES

The A47 Trunk Road (Walpole Highway and Tilney High End Bypass and Slip Roads) Order 1992

Made

2nd November 1992

Coming into force

24th November 1992

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 routes described in Schedule 1 to this Order (the highways along these routes being in this Order referred to as “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 highways along these routes in this Order referred to as “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;

(2)	(i) “the deposited plan”	means the plan numbered HA10/2E/326 marked “The A47 Trunk Road (Walpole Highway and Tilney High End Bypass and Slip Roads) Order 1992” signed by the authority of the Secretary of State and deposited at the Department of Transport, Romney House, 43 Marsham Street, London SW1P 3PY;
	(ii) “the main new trunk roads” and “the slip roads”	have the meanings given in article 1 of this Order;
	(iii) “the trunk roads”	means the highways mentioned in article 1 of this Order;
	(iv) “the trunk road”	means the A47 Trunk Road.

5.  This Order shall come into force on 24th November 1992 and may be cited as The A47 Trunk Road (Walpole Highway and Tilney High End Bypass and Slip Roads) Order 1992.

Signed by authority of the Secretary of State for Transport

Peter Emms

Regional Director Eastern Region

Department of Transport

2nd November 1992

SCHEDULE 1 ROUTES OF THE MAIN NEW TRUNK ROADS

The routes of the main new trunk roads are at Walpole Highway and Tilney High End in the County of Norfolk and are:—

(1) A route approximately 4.33 kilometres in length starting from a point on the trunk road 875 metres west of its junction with Mill Road and going first in a generally northeasterly direction and then in a generally easterly direction to rejoin the trunk road 525m west of the junction of New Road with Lynn Road.

(2) A route approximately 3.15 kilometres in length starting from a point on the trunk road 400m west of the junction of New Road with Lynn Road and going in a generally northeasterly direction to rejoin the trunk road approximately 450m east of its junction with Church Lane.

SCHEDULE 2 ROUTES OF THE SLIP ROADS

The routes of the new slip roads are the following:—

(1) (i) a slip road (given the reference number 1 on the deposited plan) to connect a new highway to be constructed between West Drove and Lynn Road with the westbound carriageway of the improved trunk road; and

(ii) a slip road (give the reference number 2 on the deposited plan) to connect the eastbound carriageway of the improved trunk road with Lynn Road (as itself proposed to be improved);

(2) four slip roads (given the reference numbers 3, 4, 5, and 6 on the deposited plan) to connect the eastbound and westbound carriageways of the main new trunk road described in paragraph (1) of Schedule 1 above with a new highway which is a diversion of Church Road in the vicinity of St John’s Highway.

(1)

1980 c. 66.

(2)

S.I. 1981/238.