The A5 Trunk Road (Mile End Roundabout Upgrade (Oswestry)) (Trunking) Order 2021

Statutory Instruments

2021 No. 1174

Highways, England

The A5 Trunk Road (Mile End Roundabout Upgrade (Oswestry)) (Trunking) Order 2021

Made

21st October 2021

Coming into force

4th November 2021

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):-

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, and is satisfied as to the 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 A5 Trunk Road (Mile End Roundabout Upgrade (Oswestry)) (Trunking) Order 2021 and shall come into force on 4th November 2021.

2.  In this Order –

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

(2) –

(a) “National Highways” means National Highways Company Limited (Company No. 9346363), a strategic highways company, which is a company registered in England and Wales and whose Registered Office is Bridge House, 1 Walnut Tree Close, Guildford, Surrey GU1 4LZ;

(b) “the plan” means the plan numbered ‘70046089-SK-003’ marked “The A5 Trunk Road (Mile End Roundabout Upgrade (Oswestry)) (Trunking) Order 2021” signed by authority of the Secretary of State for Transport and deposited at Deposited Document Services, One Priory Square, Priory Street, Hastings, East Sussex, TN34 1EA; and

(c) “the new trunk roads” means the new highways to be constructed along the routes described in the Schedule to this Order.

3.  The Secretary of State for Transport hereby directs that the lengths of road described in the Schedule to this order shall become trunk roads from the date on which National Highways notifies Shropshire Council that the new trunk roads are open for traffic. National Highways will be the highway authority for the new trunk roads.

4.  The centre line of each of the new trunk roads is indicated by a thick black line on the plan.

Signed by authority of the Secretary of State

Simon Connick

A Senior Civil Servant

in the Department for Transport

21st October 2021

Regulation 3

THE SCHEDULE ROUTES OF THE NEW TRUNK ROADS

1. The new highway which is to be constructed from a point on the A5 North 377 metres north of the Mile End roundabout south eastwards for a distance of 712 metres to a point on the A5 East (marked B to A on the plan).

2. The new highway which is to be constructed from the existing Mile End Roundabout eastwards for a distance of 69 metres to a new roundabout which is to be constructed as part of the new highway above (marked C to D on the plan).

3. The new highway which is to be constructed will include the feed pillar and an access footway which extends southwards then eastwards from the southern boundary of the Mile End Roundabout (marked E on the plan).

EXPLANATORY NOTE

(This note is not part of the Order)

Shropshire Council are to construct two new sections of the A5 trunk road at the Mile End Roundabout in the County of Shropshire and National Highways Company Limited, as a strategic highways company, is to become the highway authority for them as from the date on which the new sections of road are open to traffic.

(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.