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Statutory Instruments

1994 No. 799

HIGHWAYS, ENGLAND AND WALES

The A564 Trunk Road (Stoke–Derby Route) (Derby Southern Bypass and Slip Road) (No. 3) Order 1994

Made

14th March 1994

Coming into force

29th March 1994

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.  This Order may be cited as the A564 Trunk Road (Stoke–Derby Route) (Derby Southern Bypass and Slip Road) (No. 3) Order 1994 and shall come into force on 29th March 1994.

2.  In this Order–

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

(2) (i) “the main new road” means the new highway which the Secretary of State proposes to construct along the route described in Schedule 1 to this Order;

(ii)“the new trunk roads” means the main new road and the slip road;

(iii)“the plan” means the plan numbered HA10/EM96, marked “The A564 Trunk Road (Stoke–Derby Route) (Derby Southern Bypass and Slip Road) (No. 3) Order 1994”, signed by authority of the Secretary of State for Transport and deposited at the Department of Transport, Romney House, 43 Marsham Street, London SW1P 3PY; and

(iv)“the slip road” means the new highway which the Secretary of State proposes to construct along the route described in Schedule 2 to this Order and which connects the main new road with other highways at the places stated in that Schedule.

3.  The main new road and the slip road shall become trunk roads from the date when this Order comes into force.

4.  The centre line of each of the new trunk roads is indicated by a heavy black line on the plan.

5.  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 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 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 traffic.

Signed by authority of the Secretary of State for Transport

D. J. Morrison

Regional Director East Midlands Region

Department of Transport

14th March 1994

SCHEDULE 1Route of the Main New Road

The route of the main new road is 1.52 kilometres in length and is at Lockington, in the County of Leicestershire from a point on the A6 Trunk Road 470 metres north west of its junction with Netherfield Lane (C9206) (this point is given the reference letter A on the plan) eastwards to a point on the A6 Trunk Road 200 metres south east of its junction with Rookery Lane (this point is given the reference letter B on the plan). The route includes a roundabout, the centre point of which is at a point measured in a straight line on a horizontal plane about 100 metres north–east of the junction of Warren Lane and that trunk road.

SCHEDULE 2Route of the Slip Road

A route from a point on the northbound carriageway of the A6 Trunk Road 80 metres east of its junction with Rookery Lane westwards, to a point on the main new road, a distance of 450 metres. This slip road is given the reference number 1 on the plan.

(2)

S.I. 1981/238.