The St Clears-Pembroke Dock Trunk Road (A477) (Sageston-Redberth Bypass) Order 2000

Welsh Statutory Instruments

2000 No. 1172 (W.95)

HIGHWAYS, WALES

The St Clears-Pembroke Dock Trunk Road (A477) (Sageston-Redberth Bypass) Order 2000

Made

28th April 2000

Coming into Force

17th May 2000

The National Assembly for Wales makes this Order in exercise of powers conferred by sections 10 and 12 of the Highways Act 1980(1) and of all other enabling powers(2):–

1.  The new highway which the National Assembly for Wales proposes to construct along the route described in Schedule 1 to this Order shall become a trunk road as from the date when this Order comes into force.

2.  The centre line of the new trunk road is indicated by a heavy black line on the deposited plan.

3.  The National Assembly for Wales directs as respects any part of a highway which crosses the route of any of the new trunk road that:

a. where the highway is a highway maintainable at the public expense by the local highway authority, the part in question shall be maintained by that authority; and

b. where the highway is not a highway so maintainable and is not maintainable under a special enactment or by reason of tenure, enclosure or prescription, the National Assembly for Wales shall be under no duty to maintain the part in question.

4.  The lengths of trunk road described in Schedule 2 to this Order and shown by broad striped hatching on the deposited plan shall cease to be trunk road and shall be classified as classified roads as from the date on which the National Assembly for Wales notifies the County Council of Pembrokeshire that the new trunk road is open for through traffic.

5.  In this Order

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

(2) “classified road” (“ffordd ddosbarthiadol”) 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 a principal roads but is a classified road for the purpose of every enactment and instrument which refers to highways classified by the National Assembly for Wales and which do not specifically refer to their classification as principal roads;

• “the trunk road” (“y gefnffordd”) means the St Clears – Pembroke Dock Trunk Road (A477);

• “the new trunk road” (“y gefnffordd newydd”) means the highway mentioned in article 1 of this Order;

• “the deposited plan” (“y plan a adneuwyd”) means the plan numbered HA10/2 NAFW 1 marked the St Clears-Pembroke Dock Trunk Road (A477) (Sageston-Redberth ByPass) Order 2000 signed by authority of the National Assembly for Wales and deposited at the National Assembly for Wales Repository, Curran Embankment, Cardiff.

6.  This Order shall come into force on 17th May 2000 and may be cited as the St Clears – Pembroke Dock Trunk Road (A477) (Sageston – Redberth ByPass)Order 2000.

Signed on behalf of the Assembly Secretary for Environment

D.M. Timlin

Head of Roads Administration Division National Assembly for Wales

Dated the 28th April 2000

SCHEDULE 1 Route of the New Trunk Road

The route of the new trunk road is a route at Milton, Sageston and Redberth in the County of Pembrokeshire about 4.80 kilometres in length starting at a point on the existing Trunk Road about 260 metres west of its junction with the A4075 then going in a northeasterly direction to a point on the existing Trunk Road about 110 metres southwest of its junction with the C3129.

SCHEDULE 2 Lengths of Trunk Road ceasing to be Trunk Roads

The lengths of trunk road ceasing to be trunk roads are as follows:

1.  That length of the trunk road situated between a point about 10 metres west of its junction with the A4075 marked A on the deposited plan and a point about 210 metres east of its junction with the A4075 marked B on the deposited plan.

2.  That length of the trunk road situated between a point about 475 metres east of its junction with the A4075 marked C on the deposited plan and a point about 275 metres west of its junction with the C3129 marked D on the deposited plan.

(1)

1980 p.66

(2)

By virtue of S.I. 1999/672, article 2 and Schedule 1, these powers are now conferred upon the National Assembly for Wales in relation to Wales.