The London—Brighton Trunk Road (A23 Hickstead) Order 1987

Statutory Instruments

1987 No. 472

HIGHWAYS, ENGLAND AND WALES

The London—Brighton Trunk Road (A23 Hickstead) Order 1987

Made

12th February 1987

Coming into force

1st May 1987

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 highway which the Secretary of State proposes to construct along the route described in the Schedule to this Order shall become a trunk road as from the date when this Order comes into force.

2.  The centre line of the new trunk road 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 the new trunk road 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 purposes 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 CSE 205/2/26/02, marked“The London—Brighton Trunk Road (A23 Hickstead) Order 1987”, signed by authority of the Secretary of State and deposited at the Department of Transport, Romney House, Marsham Street, London, SW1P 3PY;

(ii) “the new trunk road”means the highway mentioned in article 1 of this Order;

(iii) “the Trunk Road”means the London—Brighton Trunk Road (A23).

5.  This Order shall come into force on 1st May 1987 and may be cited as the London—Brighton Trunk Road (A23 Hickstead) Order 1987.

Signed by authority of the Secretary of State

D. Gruffydd Jones

Regional Director South East Region

Department of Transport

12th February 1987

SCHEDULE ROUTE OF THE NEW TRUNK ROAD

The route of the new trunk road is a route at Hickstead in the County of West Sussex about 2 kilometres long overall starting at a point about 40 metres south of the entrance from the Trunk Road to Chaites Farm and proceeding southwards on the east side of the Trunk Road and generally parallel to it, crossing Jobs Lane and bifurcating about 250 metres south of Jobs Lane, the northern carriageway of the new trunk road continuing southwestwards for about 110 metres and terminating where it rejoins the Trunk Road and the southern carriageway of the new trunk road continuing for about 600 metres southwards generally parallel with the Trunk Road terminating where it rejoins the Trunk Road about 840 metres south of Jobs Lane.

(1)

1980 c. 66.

(2)

S.I. 1981/238.