The (A65) Liverpool-Preston-Leeds Trunk Road (Addingham Bypass) Order 1987

Statutory Instruments

1987 No. 1333

HIGHWAYS, ENGLAND AND WALES

The (A65) Liverpool-Preston-Leeds Trunk Road (Addingham Bypass) Order 1987

Made

23rd July 1987

Coming into force

28th August 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.  The Liverpool-Preston-Leeds Trunk Road (Heathness Bridge Diversion) Order 1949(3) is hereby revoked.

5.  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—YH 97 marked “The (A65) Liverpool-Preston-Leeds Trunk Road (Addingham Bypass) Order 1987” signed by authority of 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;

(iii) “the Trunk Road”means the Liverpool-Preston-Leeds Trunk Road (A65).

6.  This Order shall come into force on 28th August 1987 and may be cited as the (A65) Liverpool-Preston-Leeds Trunk Road (Addingham Bypass) Order 1987.

Signed by authority of the Secretary of State

J. F. Ballard

Regional Director

Yorkshire and Humberside Region Department of Transport

23rd July 1987

SCHEDULE ROUTE OF THE NEW TRUNK ROAD

The route of the new trunk road is a route in the District of Bradford in the County of West Yorkshire 3.27 kilometres in length starting at a point (marked “A” on the deposited plan) on the Trunk Road 170 metres south-east of its junction with Highfield House access track then going in a generally southerly then south-easterly direction to terminate at a point (marked “B” on the deposited plan) on the Trunk Road 255 metres north-west of its junction with Lumb Gill Lane.

(1)

1980 c. 66.

(2)

S.I. 1981/238.

(3)

S.I. 1949/889.