The A500 Trunk Road (Wolstanton Junction Improvement Scheme) (Detrunking) Order 2023

1.  This Order may be cited as the A500 Trunk Road (Wolstanton Junction Improvement Scheme) (Detrunking) Order 2023 and shall come into force on 9th February 2023

2.  In this Order—

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

(a) “the trunk road”	means the lengths of the A500 trunk road in the District of Wolstanton Newcastle-Under-Lyme, in the County of Staffordshire described in the Schedule to this Order;
(b) “National Highways”	Means National Highways Limited, which is a strategic highways company (Company No. 9346363), which is a company registered in England and Wales and whose Registered Office is Bridge House, Walnut Tree Close, Guildford, Surrey, GU1 4LZ;
(c) “the plan”	means the plan marked “The A500 Trunk Road (Wolstanton Junction Improvement Scheme)(Detrunking) Order 2023”; signed by authority of the Secretary of State for Transport and deposited at Document Deposit Service, Communities and Local Government, Floor 13 (IMD), Ashdown House, St Leonards on Sea, Hastings, East Sussex TN37 7GA; and
(d) “classified road”	as a classification for a highway, means that the highway is not a principal road for the purposes of enactments and instruments which refer to highways classified as principal roads but it 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.

3.  From the date when this Order comes into force the lengths of the trunk road described in the schedule to this Order shall cease to be trunk road and shall be classified as classified road.

Signed by authority of the Secretary of State for Transport

Martin Gilmour

A Senior Civil Servant in the

Department for Transport

26th January 2023