Classification of roads
10.—(1) On a date to be determined by the undertaker, and subject to the procedures in paragraph (2) being satisfied—
(a)the Watford and South of St Albans—Redbourn—Kidney Wood, Luton, Special Roads Scheme 1957 is varied as follows—
(i)for Article 1A substitute—
“The centre line of the special road is indicated in blue on the plan numbered F/D121475/IPC/SR1/001 and marked M1 Junction 10A Grade Separation Variation of Special Road Status, signed by authority of the Secretary of State for Transport and deposited at Deposited Documents Service, Department for Transport, Room F13, Ashdown House, Sedlescombe Road North, St. Leonards-on-Sea, East Sussex, TN37 7GA”; and
(ii)for the Schedule to that Scheme, after the “The Route of the Special Road”, substitute—
“From a point on the former London-Aylesbury-Warwick-Birmingham Trunk road (A.41) near Watford in the County of Hertfordshire approximately 350 yards south-east of the centre point of the bridge carrying the said trunk road over the River Colne in a general north-westerly direction to Junction 10 of the M1 Motorway at Slip End, Luton.”;
(b)subject to sub-paragraph (c), the highways in respect of which special road status has been removed by virtue of sub-paragraph (a) are to be trunk roads for which the Secretary of State is the highway authority and are to be classified as the A1081 trunk road; and
(c)the section of highway between points A and B on sheet 2 of the street plans, being from the point where the existing M1 Spur road meets London Road at Kidney Wood Roundabout for a distance of approximately 195 metres in a westerly direction, is to cease to be trunk road, is to be classified as the A1081, and is to become—
(i)a principal road for the purpose of any enactment or instrument which refers to highways classified as principal roads; and
(ii)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) of the 1980 Act.
(2) Prior to the date on which paragraph (1) is to take effect, the undertaker is to—
(a)notify the Secretary of State in writing of the date on which paragraph (1) is to take effect; and
(b)publish in The London Gazette, and in one or more newspapers circulating in the vicinity of the authorised development, notification of the date on which paragraph (1) takes effect, and the general effect of that paragraph.
(3) Upon completion of the authorised development, the following sections of highway are to be classified as the A1081, and are to be principal roads and classified roads for the purpose of any enactment or instrument which refers to highways classified as principal roads and classified roads, as if such classification had been made under section 12(3) of the 1980 Act—
(a)Kidney Wood Eastbound Diverge Slip Road, from the end of the nosing of its taper from A1081 Airport Way (previously M1 Spur) to its junction with the give way line of Kidney Wood Northern Roundabout, a distance of approximately 241 metres;
(b)Kidney Wood Eastbound Merge Slip Road, from its junction with Kidney Wood Northern Roundabout to the start of the nosing of its taper onto A1081 Airport Way, a distance of approximately 187 metres;
(c)Kidney Wood Westbound Diverge Slip Road, from the end of its taper from A1081 Airport Way to its junction with the give way line of Kidney Wood Southern Roundabout, a distance of approximately 331 metres;
(d)Kidney Wood Westbound Merge Slip Road, from its junction with Kidney Wood Southern Roundabout to the start of the nosing of its taper onto A1081 Airport Way (previously M1 Spur), a distance of approximately 310 metres;
(e)Kidney Wood Northern Roundabout, for the extent of its circulatory carriageway;
(f)the A1081 London Road Link, from its junction with Kidney Wood Southern Roundabout to its junction with Kidney Wood Northern Roundabout, a distance of approximately 502 metres;
(g)Kidney Wood Southern Roundabout, for the extent of its circulatory carriageway; and
(h)the A1081 London Road (South), from its junction with the give way line of Kidney Wood Southern Roundabout to the centreline of its junction with Newlands Road, a distance of approximately 300 metres.