The A21 Trunk Road (Tonbridge Bypass to Pembury Bypass Dualling) Order 1996

Statutory Instruments

1996 No. 802

HIGHWAYS, ENGLAND AND WALES

The A21 Trunk Road (Tonbridge Bypass to Pembury Bypass Dualling) Order 1996

Made

4th March 1996

Coming into force

5th April 1996

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 powers enabling him in that behalf:—

1.—(1) This Order may be cited as the A21 Trunk Road (Tonbridge Bypass to Pembury Bypass Dualling) Order 1996 and shall come into force on 5th April 1996.

(2) In this Order all measurements of distance are measured along the route of the relevant highway.

2.  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 from the date when this Order comes into force.

3.  The centre line of the new trunk road is indicated by a heavy black line on the plan numbered HA 10/1/SWM/125 marked “The A21 Trunk Road (Tonbridge Bypass to Pembury Bypass Dualling) Order 1996”, signed by authority of the Secretary of State for Transport and deposited at the Department of Transport, Great Minster House, 76 Marsham Street, London SW1P 4DR.

4.  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 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 new trunk road is opened for traffic.

Signed by authority of the Secretary of State for Transport

D Ward

Director Southern Operations Division Highways Agency

4th March 1996

THE SCHEDULE ROUTE OF THE NEW TRUNK ROAD

The route of the new trunk road is 3.9 kilometres in length, starting at a point on the trunk road 280 metres southwest of its junction with A2014 Pembury Road, and proceeding generally southwards to join the trunk road (Pembury Bypass) at a point 100 metres south of its junction with Longfield Road.

(1)

1980 c. 66.

(2)

S.I. 1981/238.