The (A41) East of Birmingham to Birkenhead and the (A49) Shrewsbury to Warrington Trunk Roads (Whitchurch Bypass) Order 1988

1.  The new highway which the Secretary of State proposes to construct along the route described in Schedule 1 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 any 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 lengths of trunk roads described in Schedule 2 and shown by broad striped hatching on the deposited plan shall cease to be trunk roads and shall be classified as classified roads as from the date on which the Secretary of State notifies the County Council of Shropshire that the new trunk road is open for through traffic.

5.  The Secretary of State is authorised to construct the bridge specified in Schedule 3 as part of the new trunk road and, in connection with the construction of that bridge, to divert the part of the navigable watercourse specified in that schedule and the towing path adjacent to that part in the manner shown in that schedule.

6.  The Secretary of State is authorised to construct the bridge specified in Schedule 4 as part of the new trunk road and, in connection with the construction of that bridge, to divert the part of the navigable water course specified in that schedule and the towing path adjacent to that part in the manner shown in that schedule.

7.  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 HA 10/2WM126 marked“The (A41) East of Birmingham to Birkenhead and the (A49) Shrewsbury to Warrington Trunk Roads (Whitchurch 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;

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

(iv) “the Trunk Road”means the East of Birmingham—Birkenhead Trunk Road (A41) and the Shrewsbury to Warrington Trunk Road (A49); and

(3) reference to a numbered Schedule is a reference to the Schedule to this Order which bears that number.

8.  This Order shall come into force on 29th July 1988 and may be cited as the (A41) East of Birmingham to Birkenhead and the (A49) Shrewsbury to Warrington Trunk Roads (Whitchurch Bypass) Order 1988.

Signed by the authority of the Secretary of State

H. F. Ellis

Regional Director West Midlands Region

Department of Transport

13th May 1988