The (A16) Norman Cross—Grimsby Trunk Road (Louth Bypass) Order 1988

Statutory Instruments

1988 No. 1548

HIGHWAYS, ENGLAND AND WALES

The (A16) Norman Cross—Grimsby Trunk Road (Louth Bypass) Order 1988

Made

1st September 1988

Coming into force

23rd September 1988

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 so 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 HA10/EM 34 marked “The (A16) Norman Cross—Grimsby Trunk Road (Louth Bypass) Order 1988” signed by authority of the Secretary of State and deposited at the Department of Transport, Romney House, 43 Marsham Street, London SW1P 3PY;

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

(iii) “the Trunk Road” means the (A16) Norman Cross—Grimsby Trunk Road.

5.  This Order shall come into force on 23rd September 1988 and may be cited as the (A16) Norman Cross—Grimsby Trunk Road (Louth Bypass) Order 1988.

Signed by authority of the Secretary of State

P. M. Hewitt

Regional Director East Midlands Region

Department of Transport

1st September 1988

SCHEDULE ROUTE OF THE NEW TRUNK ROAD

The route of the new trunk road is in Louth and in the Parishes of Elkington, Hallington and Raithby-Cum-Maltby in the District of East Lindsey in the County of Lincolnshire and is about 5.35 kilometres in length, starting at a point on the Trunk Road 95 metres north of its junction with Northolme Road, then going south to a point on the Trunk Road 355 metres north of its junction with Kenwick Hill.

(1)

1980 c. 66.

(2)

S.I. 1981/238.