The A41 London to Birkenhead Trunk Road (Buckinghamshire) (Detrunking) Order 2002

Statutory Instruments

2002 No. 215

HIGHWAYS, ENGLAND

The A41 London to Birkenhead Trunk Road (Buckinghamshire) (Detrunking) Order 2002

Made

4th February 2002

Coming into force

30th March 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 A41 London to Birkenhead Trunk Road (Buckinghamshire) (Detrunking) Order 2002, and shall come into force on 30 March 2002.

2.  In this Order—

(i) “principal” 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

(ii) “the trunk road” means the A41 London to Birkenhead Trunk Road (A41)

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 the Secretary of State notifies Buckinghamshire County Council that they will become the highway authority responsible for that length of road.

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

W S C Wadrup

A Divisional Director Highways Agency

4th February 2002

THE SCHEDULE Length of the Trunk Road ceasing to be a Trunk Road

The length of the trunk road ceasing to be a trunk road is situated between the boundary of the Counties of Buckinghamshire and Oxfordshire (east of Blackthorn) to the centre point of its junction with the access road to Weston Mead Farm (east of Aylesbury), including:

• A41 Dickens Way/Jackson Road Roundabout, Aylesbury;

• A41 Rabans Lane Roundabout, Aylesbury;

• A41 Meadowcroft Roundabout, Aylesbury;

• A41 Broadfields Roundabout, Aylesbury;

• A41 Weedon Road Roundabout, Aylesbury;

• A41/A418 Oxford Road Junction, Aylesbury;

• A41 Station Way (West) Roundabout, Aylesbury;

• A41 Station Way (East) Roundabout, Aylesbury;

• A41/A413 Walton Street Roundabout, Aylesbury;

• A41 High Street Roundabout, Aylesbury;

• A41 Tring Road Roundabout, Aylesbury;

• A41 Bedgrove Roundabout, Aylesbury,

• A41 Broughton Lane Roundabout, Aylesbury; and

all lay-bys (see plan pages 15, 16, 19, 21, 22 & 26);

• and is shown by broad black dashes on the plans numbered A41-75363/4/A41/001-038, marked “The A41 London to Birkenhead Trunk Road (Buckinghamshire) (Detrunking) Order 2002.” Signed by authority of the Secretary of State for Transport, Local Government and the Regions, DTLR Deposited Document Service, Ashdown House, Sedlescombe Road North, St Leonards on Sea, Hastings, East Sussex TN37 7GA.

(1)

1980 c. 66.

(2)

S.I. 1981/238.