Statutory Instruments
HIGHWAYS, ENGLAND
Made
10th May 2000
Coming into force
9th June 2000
1. This Order may be cited as the A43 Trunk Road (M40 to B4031 Improvement) Order 2000 and shall come into force on 9th June 2000.
2. In this Order—
(i)all measurements of distance are measured along the route of the relevant highway;
(ii)“the trunk road” means the A43 Trunk Road.
3. The new highways which the Secretary of State proposes to construct along the routes described in the Schedule to this Order shall become trunk roads from the date when this Order comes into force.
4. The centre lines of the new trunk roads are indicated by heavy black lines on the plan numbered PSE/O/A43/2/65/10/1, marked “The A43 Trunk Road (M40 to B4031 Improvement) Order 2000 signed by authority of the Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions deposited at the Highways Agency, St. Christopher House, Southwark Street, London SE1 0TE.”
5. The Secretary of State directs as respects any part of a highway which crosses the route of a new trunk road that—
(a)where the highway is 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 so maintainable and is not maintainable under 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 new trunk roads are opened for traffic.
Signed by authority of the Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions
WSC Wadrup
A Divisional Director in the Highways Agency
10th May 2000
1. A route of about 1200 metres in length from a point on the eastern boundary of the existing A43, 500 metres north of the existing roundabout on the A43 east of the M40, to a point on the eastern boundary of the existing A43, 220 metres northeast of its junction with The Length, all in the county of Oxfordshire;
2. A route of about 2420 metres in length from a point on the western boundary of the existing A43, 240 metres southwest of the southwest corner of Oxford Lodge in the Parish of Tusmore, to a point on the western boundary of the existing A43, 32 metres north-west of its junction with Cottisford Road, in the counties of Oxfordshire and Northamptonshire; and
3. A route of about 350 metres in length, from a point on the eastern boundary of the trunk road 260 metres northeast of its junction with Cottisford Road, to a point on the eastern boundary of the trunk road 41 metres east of its junction with RAF Croughton, in the county of Oxfordshire.