Statutory Instruments
HIGHWAYS, ENGLAND AND WALES
Made
22nd October 1991
Coming into force
27th November 1991
1. The new highways which the Secretary of State proposes to construct–
(a)along the route described in Schedule 1 to this Order (the highway along this route being in this Order referred to as “the main new trunk road”, and
(b)along the routes described in Schedule 2 to this Order which connect the main new trunk road with other highways at the place stated in that schedule (the highways along these routes being 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–
(i)“the deposited plan” means the plan numbered HA10/EM79 marked “The (A46) Bath–Lincoln Trunk Road (Leicester Western Bypass and Slip Roads) (Supplementary) Order 1991”, signed by au thority of the Secretary of State and deposited at the Department of Transport, Romney House, 43 Marsham Street, London SW1P 3PY;
(ii)“the new trunk roads” means the highways mentioned in article 1 of this Order.
5. This Order shall come into force on 27th November 1991 and may be cited as the (A46) Bath–Lincoln Trunk Road (Leicester Western Bypass and Slip Roads) (Supple mentary) Order 1991.
Signed by authority of the Secretary of State for Transport
D. J. Morrison
Regional Director East Midlands Region,
Department of Transport
22nd October 1991
The route of the main new trunk road is in the Parish of Glenfield, in the District of Blaby, in the County of Leicestershire, extending about 0.13 kilometres in a northerly direction from a point measured in a straight line on a horizontal plane 28 metres north of the centre line of the dismantled railway and 422 metres north-east of the centre line of the M1 Motorway (marked “A” on the deposited plan) to a point on the centre line of the dismantled railway measured in a straight line on a horizontal plane 513 metres north-east of the centre line of the M1 Motorway (marked “B” on the deposited plan).
Two routes, in the Parishes of Glenfield, Kirby Muxloe and Ratby, in the Districts of Blaby and Hinkley and Bosworth, in the County of Leicestershire, to connect the north-eastbound carriageway and the south-westbound carriageway of the main new trunk road with a roundabout to be constructed by the Secretary of State pursuant to the (M1) London–Yorkshire Motorway ((A46 Leicester Western Bypass) Connecting Roads) (Side Roads) Order 1991 (the slip roads being given, respectively, the reference numbers 1 and 2 on the deposited plan).
S.I. 1981/238.