The A12 Chelmsford to A120 Widening Development Consent Order 2024

Classification of roads, etc.

14.—(1) On the date on which the roads described in Part 1 (trunk roads) of Schedule 3 (classification of roads etc.) are completed and open for traffic, they are to become trunk roads as if they had become so by virtue of an order under section 10(2)(1) (general provision as to trunk roads) of the 1980 Act specifying that date as the date on which they were to become trunk roads.

(2) On the date on which the roads described in Part 2 (classified A roads), Part 3 (classified B roads) and Part 4 (classified C roads) of Schedule 3 are completed and open for traffic, they are to become classified roads for the purpose of any enactment or instrument which refers to highways classified as classified roads as if such classification had been made under section 12(3) (general provision as to principal and classified roads) of the 1980 Act.

(3) On and after the date on which the roads described in Part 5 (unclassified roads) of Schedule 3 are completed and open for traffic, they are to become unclassified roads for the purpose of any enactment or instrument which refers to roads which are not classified roads.

(4) On such day as the undertaker may determine, the orders specified in column (3) of Part 12 (revocations & variations of existing traffic regulation orders) of Schedule 3 are to be varied or revoked as specified in the corresponding row of column (4) of that Part in respect of the lengths of roads specified in the corresponding row of column (2) of that Part.

(5) Subject to article 9(4) (limits of deviation) unless otherwise agreed in writing with the relevant local highway authority, the footpaths, cycle tracks, footways and bridleways set out in Part 13 (footpaths, cycle tracks, footways and bridleways) of Schedule 3 and identified on the streets, rights of way and access plans are to be constructed by the undertaker in the specified locations and open for use from the date on which the authorised development is open to traffic.

(6) On such day as the undertaker may determine, the roads described in Part 14 (roads to be de-trunked) of Schedule 3 are to cease to be trunk roads as if they had ceased to be trunk roads by virtue of an order made under section 10(2) of the 1980 Act specifying that date as the date on which they were to cease to be trunk roads.

(7) The undertaker may only make a determination for the purposes of paragraph (6) with the consent of the Secretary of State, who must consult the relevant local highway authority as to the date and as to whether the highway to be de-trunked is of a reasonably satisfactory standard for use as a local highway.

(8) The application of paragraphs (1) to (6) may be varied or revoked by any instrument made under any enactment which provides for the variation or revocation of such matters.

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Section 10(2) was amended by section 22 of the New Roads and Street Works Act 1991 Act and by section 1 of, and Schedule 1 to, the Infrastructure Act 2015 (c. 7).