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

Statutory Instruments

2023 No. 84

Highways, England

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

Made

26th January 2023

Coming into force

9th February 2023

The Secretary of State for Transport makes this Order in exercise of the powers conferred by sections 10(2) and 12(3) of the Highways Act 1980(1) and now vested in the Secretary of State (2):

In accordance with section 10(2) of that Act, the Secretary of State has taken into consideration the requirements of local and national planning, including the requirements of agriculture, as is satisfied as to expediency.

This Order is made in compliance with the provisions of Parts I and III of Schedule 1 of that Act.

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

SCHEDULE LENGTHS OF TRUNK ROAD CEASING TO BE A TRUNK ROAD

The lengths of the trunk road ceasing to be a trunk road are shown by black hatched lines on the plan marked “The A500 Trunk Road (Wolstanton Junction Improvement Scheme) (Detrunking) Order 2023” and are

1.  the A500 Trunk Road off slip between a point 95 metres north from its bifurcation from the northbound carriageway of the trunk road and a point 100 metres north from its bifurcation from the northbound carriageway of the trunk road where the off slip joins the south eastern arm of the Wolstanton West Roundabout;

2.  the A500 Trunk Road on slip between a point 85 metres north from its convergence with the northbound carriageway of the trunk road and a point 90 metres north from its convergence with the northbound carriageway of the trunk road where the on slip joins the north eastern arm of the Wolstanton West roundabout; and

3.  the A500 Trunk Road off slip between a point 100 metres south from its bifurcation from the southbound carriageway of the trunk road and a point 103 metres south its bifurcation from the southbound carriageway of the trunk road where the off slip joins the north western arm of the Wolstanton East roundabout.

EXPLANATORY NOTE

(This note is not part of the Order)

This Order will remove the trunk road status from lengths of the A500 Trunk Road described in the Schedule to this Order which will become classified roads, the responsibility for which will be transferred to Staffordshire County Council as the local highway authority.

(1)

1980 c. 66; section 10 is amended by the New Roads and Street Works Act 1991 (c. 22), section 22(2)(a), and the Infrastructure Act 2015 (c. 7), paragraph 10(2) of Schedule 1. There are further amendments to section 10 which are not relevant to this Order.

(2)

S.I.1981/238.