The A61 Trunk Road (Alfreton to Sheffield) (Detrunking) Order 2002

Statutory Instruments

2002 No. 1185

HIGHWAYS, ENGLAND

The A61 Trunk Road (Alfreton to Sheffield) (Detrunking) Order 2002

Made

26th April 2002

Coming into force

17th May 2002

The Secretary of State for Transport, Local Government and the Regions has made 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 powers enabling him in that behalf:

1.  This Order may be cited as the A61 Trunk Road (Alfreton to Sheffield) (Detrunking) Order 2002 and shall come into force on 17th May 2002.

2.  In this Order—

(i) “principal road” as a classification for a highway, means that the highway is a principal road for the purposes of enactments and instruments which refer to highways classified as principal roads and is also classified for the purpose of every other enactment and instrument which refers to highways classified by the Secretary of State;

(ii) “the trunk road” means the A61 Trunk Road; and

(iii) “the plan” means the plan folio, numbered HA 10/OD/297 and marked “The A61 Trunk Road (Alfreton to Sheffield) (Detrunking) Order 2002”, signed by authority of the Secretary of State for Transport, Local Government and the Regions and deposited at DTLR Records Management Branch, Ashdown House, Sedlescombe Road North, St Leonards-on-Sea, East Sussex, TN37 7GA.

3.  The length of the trunk road described in the Schedule to this Order shall cease to be a trunk road and shall be classified as a principal road from the date on which this Order comes into force.

Signed by authority of the Secretary of State for Transport, Local Government and the Regions

Graham Bowskill

A Divisional Director in the Highways Agency

26th April 2002

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

The length of trunk road ceasing to be a trunk road is between its junction with the A38 Trunk Road at Watchorn Roundabout (and including the Roundabout’s circulatory carriageway), at Alfreton (marked “A” on the plan), and continuing in a northerly direction through Clay Cross, Chesterfield, and around Dronfield, to the border between the County of Derbyshire and the City of Sheffield at Boundary Brook about 200 metres north of the Bowshaw Roundabout (marked “B” on the plan), all in the County of Derbyshire. It is shown by broad black dashes on the plan and is approximately 30 kilometres in length.

(1)

1980 c. 66.

(2)

S.I. 1981/238.