1. This Order may be cited as the A5 and B4579 Trunk Roads (Mile End Roundabout Upgrade (Oswestry)) (Detrunking) Order 2021 and shall come into force on 4th November 2021.
2. In this Order –
(1) all measurements of distance are measured along the route of the relevant highway.
(2) –
(a)“National Highways” means National Highways Company Limited (Company No. 9346363), a strategic highways company, which is a company registered in England and Wales and whose Registered Office is Bridge House, 1 Walnut Tree Close, Guildford, Surrey GU1 4LZ;
(b)“the plan” means the plan numbered ‘70046089-SK-004’ marked “The A5 and B4579 Trunk Roads (Mile End Roundabout Upgrade (Oswestry)) (Detrunking) Order 2021” signed by authority of the Secretary of State for Transport and deposited at Deposited Document Services, One Priory Square, Priory Street, Hastings, East Sussex, TN34 1EA;
(c)“classified road” as a classification for a highway, means that the highway is not a principal road for the purposes of enactments or instruments which refer to highways classified as principal roads but is a classified road for the purpose of every enactment and instrument which refers to highways classified by the Secretary of State and which does not specifically refer to their classification as principal roads;
(d)“the new trunk roads” means the new trunk roads defined in “The A5 Trunk Road (Mile End Roundabout Upgrade (Oswestry)) (Trunking) Order 2021”, and
(e)“the trunk roads” means the A5 North Trunk Road and the B4579 Trunk Road.
3. The lengths of road described in the Schedule to this order shall cease to be trunk roads and shall be classified as classified roads from the date on which National Highways notifies Shropshire Council that the new trunk roads are open for traffic.
Signed by authority of the Secretary of State
Simon Connick
A Senior Civil Servant
in the Department for Transport
21st October 2021