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Statutory Instruments

2006 No. 3078

HIGHWAYS, ENGLAND

The A3 Trunk Road (Hindhead) Detrunking Order 2006

Made

2nd November 2006

Coming into force

13th November 2006

The Secretary of State for Transport 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 A3 Trunk Road (Hindhead) Detrunking Order 2006 and shall come into force on 13th November 2006.

2.  In this Order—

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

(2) (i) “classified road” as a classification for a highway, means that the highway is not a principal road for the purposes of enactments or instruments which refer to highways classified as principal roads but is a classified road for the purpose of every enactment and instrument which refers to highways classified by the Secretary of State and which does not specifically refer to their classification as principal roads;

(ii)“the new trunk road” means the new highway which the Secretary of State proposes to construct and referred to in article 3 of the A3 Trunk Road (Hindhead) Order 2006(3);

(iii)“the slip roads” means the new highways which the Secretary of State proposes to construct and referred to in article 3 of the A3 (Hindhead) Slip Roads Order 2006(4);

(iv)“the trunk road” means the London-Portsmouth Trunk Road (A3)

(v)“site plan” means the plan contained in the plan folio numbered HA 10/MP/011, marked “The A3 Trunk Road (Hindhead) Detrunking Order 2006”, 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

(i)3.  The lengths of the trunk road described in Schedule 1 to this Order and shown by broad black dashes on the Site Plan, shall cease to be a trunk road from the date on which the Secretary of State notifies the County Councils of Surrey and Hampshire that the new trunk road and the slip roads are open to traffic; and

(ii)The lengths of the trunk road described in Schedule 2 to this Order and shown by broad black dashes on the Site Plan, shall cease to be a trunk road and be classified as a classified roads from the date on which the Secretary of State notifies the County Councils of Surrey and Hampshire that the trunk road as proposed to be improved and the new trunk road and the slip roads are open to traffic.

Signed by authority of the Secretary of State for Transport

John Sherwood

A Divisional Director

Highways Agency

2nd November 2006

SCHEDULE 1

The two lengths of the trunk road ceasing to be trunk road are:

(i)the southbound carriageway of the trunk road from a point 55 metres north-east of its junction with Knockhundred Lane (Point A) to a point 130 metres north-east of the said junction (Point B) all in the District of East Hampshire in the County of Hampshire; and

(ii)that length between a point 35 metres east of its junction with footpath 103B (Point D) and a point 190 metres north of its junction with Boundless Road (Point E), all in the Borough of Waverley in the County of Surrey.

SCHEDULE 2

The two lengths of the trunk road ceasing to be trunk road are:

(i)the southbound carriageway of the trunk road between a point 130 metres north-east of its junction with Knockhundred Lane (Point B) in the District of East Hampshire in the County of Hampshire to a point 75 metres north-east of its junction with Hammer Lane (Point C) in the Borough of Waverley in the County of Surrey; and

(ii)both carriageways of the trunk road between a point 75 metres north-east of its junction with Hammer Lane (Point C) and a point 35 metres east of its junction with Bridleway 103B (Point D) all in the Borough of Waverley in the County of Surrey.

(3)

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(4)

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