The (A19) East of Snaith—York—Thirsk—Stockton-on-Tees—Sunderland Trunk Road (Burnhope Way Roundabout Grade Separated Junction) Order 1987

Statutory Instruments

1987 No. 699

HIGHWAYS, ENGLAND AND WALES

The (A19) East of Snaith—York—Thirsk—Stockton-on-Tees—Sunderland Trunk Road (Burnhope Way Roundabout Grade Separated Junction) Order 1987

Made

3rd April 1987

Coming into force

6th May 1987

The Secretary of State for Transport makes this Order in exercise of powers conferred by sections 10 and 12 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 Schedule 1 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 length of the Trunk Road described in Schedule 2 to this Order and shown by broad striped hatching on the deposited plan shall cease to be a trunk road and shall be classified as a classified road as from the date on which the Secretary of State notifies the County Council of Durham that the new trunk road is open for through traffic.

4.  In this Order—

(1) all measurements of distance are measured along the route of the relevant highway;

(2) (i)  “classified road”

as a classification for a highway, means that the highway is not a principal road for the purposes of enactments or instruments which refer to highways classified as principal roads but is a classified road for the purpose of every enactment and instrument which refers to highways classified by the Secretary of State and which does not specifically refer to their classification as principal roads;

(ii) “the deposited plan”

means the plan numbered HA10/2—/206 marked “The (A19) East of Snaith—York—Thirsk—Stockton-on-Tees—Sunderland Trunk Road (Burnhope Way Roundabout Grade Separated Junction) Order 1987”, signed by authority of the Secretary of State and deposited at the Department of Transport, Romney House, Marsham Street, London SW1P 3PY; and

(iii) “the Trunk Road”

means the (A19) East of Snaith—York—Thirsk—Stockton-on-Tees—Sunderland Trunk Road.

5.  This Order shall come into force on 6th May 1987 and may be cited as the (A19) East of Snaith—York—Thirsk—Stockton-on-Tees—Sunderland Trunk Road (Burnhope Way Roundabout Grade Separated Junction) Order 1987.

Signed by authority of the Secretary of State

Alastair Balls

Regional Director Northern Region

Department of Transport

3rd April 1987

SCHEDULE 1ROUTE OF THE NEW TRUNK ROAD

A route about 1545 metres in length (between the points marked “A” and “B” on the deposited plan) starting at a point on the Trunk Road about 754 metres south of the centre point of the Burnhope Way Roundabout central island and going in a generally northern direction to a point about 791 metres north of that centre point, all in the District of Easington in the County of Durham.

SCHEDULE 2LENGTH OF TRUNK ROAD CEASING TO BE A TRUNK ROAD

The length of the Trunk Road ceasing to be a trunk road, is that length which comprises the carriageway of Burnhope Way Roundabout, at Peterlee in the District of Easington in the County of Durham.

(2)

S.I. 1981/238.