The A14 Trunk Road (Rookery Crossroads Grade Separated Junction Slip Roads) Order 2003

Statutory Instruments

2003 No. 2720

HIGHWAYS, ENGLAND

The A14 Trunk Road (Rookery Crossroads Grade Separated Junction Slip Roads) Order 2003

Made

21st October 2003

Coming into force

14th November 2003

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.  This Order may be cited as the A14 Trunk Road (Rookery Crossroads Grade Separated Junction Slip Roads) Order 2003 and shall come into force on 14 November 2003.

2.  In this Order—

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

(2) (i) “the A14 trunk road” means the A14 trunk road in the county of Suffolk;

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

(iii) “the plan” means the plan numbered HA 10/MP/014 marked “The A14 Trunk Road (Rookery Crossroads Grade Separated Junction Slip Roads) Order 2003”, signed by authority of the Secretary of State for Transport, and deposited at ODPM-DfT Records Management Branch, Floor 13 (IMD), Ashdown House, St Leonards on Sea, Hastings, East Sussex TN37 7GA; and

(iv) “the slip roads” means the new highways which the Secretary of State proposes to construct along the routes described in the Schedule to this Order and which connect the A14 trunk road with other highways or proposed highways at the places stated in that Schedule.

3.  The slip roads 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,

P. Wallwork

A Divisional Director in the Highways Agency

21st October 2003

SCHEDULE 1 ROUTE OF THE SLIP ROADS

The routes of the slip roads are as follows:

• Junction of the A14 trunk road with the U8005 and Sow Lane at Rookery Crossroads, east of Bury St Edmunds

  (a)

  A route to connect the westbound carriageway of the A14 trunk road with the U8005 (as proposed to be improved by the Secretary of State) at Rookery Crossroads (the slip road along this route being given the number 1 on the plan), and

  (b)

  A route to connect the eastbound carriageway of the A14 trunk road with Sow Lane (as proposed to be improved by the Secretary of State) at Rookery Crossroads (the slip road along this route being given the numbers 2 and 3 on the plan).

(1)

1980 c. 66.

(2)

S.I. 1981/238.