The A34 Trunk Road (Newtown, Great Wyrley, Staffordshire To The Southern Boundary Of The A34/A500 Queensway Roundabout, Staffordshire) (Detrunking) Order 2002

Statutory Instruments

2002 No. 1213

HIGHWAYS, ENGLAND

The A34 Trunk Road (Newtown, Great Wyrley, Staffordshire To The Southern Boundary Of The A34/A500 Queensway Roundabout, Staffordshire) (Detrunking) Order 2002

Made

26th April 2002

Coming into force

16th May 2002

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

1.  This Order may be cited as the A34 Trunk Road (Newtown, Great Wyrley, Staffordshire to the southern boundary of the A34/A500 Queensway Roundabout, Staffordshire) (Detrunking) Order 2002 and shall come into force on 16th May 2002.

2.  In this Order—

(i) “the plan” means the plan folio numbered HA 10/OD/428 consisting of sheets 1 to 2 and marked “The A34 Trunk Road (Newtown, Great Wyrley, Staffordshire to the southern boundary of the A34/A500 Queensway Roundabout, Staffordshire) (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, St Leonards on Sea, Hastings, East Sussex, TN27 7GA;

(ii) “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; and

(iii) “the trunk road” means the A34 Trunk Road.

3.  The lengths of the trunk road route 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 the Order comes into force.

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

Graham Bowskill

A Divisional Director Highways Agency

26th April 2002

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

The lengths of trunk road ceasing to be trunk road:

1.  From the Staffordshire County/Walsall Metropolitan Borough Boundary of Newtown, Great Wyrley, (starting point marked “A” on the plan) and continues in a northerly direction through the Districts of South Staffordshire, Cannock Chase and Stafford in the County of Staffordshire terminating at a point on the southern boundary of the A34 Ampleforth Drive Roundabout, Queensville, (but not including the circulatory carriageway) (marked “B” on the plan), a distance of approximately 20.4 kilometres.

2.  From a point on the eastern boundary of the M6 Junction 14, Cresswell/A34 roundabout, Stafford, (but not including the circulatory carriageway), (marked “C” on the plan) and continues in an easterly and northerly direction through the Districts of Stafford and Stoke-on-Trent in the County of Staffordshire terminating at a point on the southern boundary of the A34/A500 Queensway Roundabout, (but not including the circulatory carriageway) (marked “D” on the plan), a distance of approximately 20.1 kilometres.

They are shown by broad black dashes on the plans and are approximately 40.5 kilometres in total.

(1)

1980 c. 66.

(2)

S.I. 1981/238.