Statutory Instruments

2002 No. 3239

HIGHWAYS, ENGLAND

The Gloucestershire County Council (Castle Meads Bridge) Scheme 2001 Confirmation Instrument 2002

Made

30th December 2002

Coming into force in accordance with article 1

The Secretary of State for Transport makes this Instrument in exercise of powers conferred by section 106(3) of the Highways Act 1980(1) and now vested in him(2) and of all other powers enabling him in that behalf:

1. This Instrument may be cited as The Gloucestershire County Council (Castle Meads Bridge) Scheme 2001 Confirmation Instrument 2002 and shall come into force on the date on which notice that it has been confirmed is first published in accordance with paragraph 1 of Schedule 2 to the Highways Act 1980.

2. The Gloucestershire County Council (Castle Meads Bridge) Scheme 2001 (“the Scheme”) is hereby confirmed without modifications.

3. The Scheme as confirmed is set out in the Schedule hereto (including the plan) and copies of the Scheme with its accompanying plan are deposited at the offices of the Department for Transport, Floor 13 (IMD), Ashdown House, St Leonards on Sea, Hastings, East Sussex TN37 7GA, and at the offices of Gloucestershire County Council, Shire Hall, Westgate Street, Gloucester.

Signed by authority of the Secretary of State for Transport

J. Blackie

Regional Director, Government Office for the North East

30th December 2002

THE SCHEDULETHE GLOUCESTERSHIRE COUNTY COUNCIL (CASTLE MEADS BRIDGE) SCHEME 2001

The Gloucestershire County Council (hereinafter referred to as “the Council”) make this Scheme in exercise of their powers under Section 106(3) of the Highways Act 1980 and of all other powers enabling them in that behalf:

1. The Council are authorised to construct over the navigable waters of the River Severn the bridge specified in the Schedule to this Scheme as part of the highway which they are proposing to construct from a point 188 metres north of the junction of Hemmingsdale Road with Llanthony Road northwards to the A417 Over Causeway 275 metres west of Westgate Bridge, in the City of Gloucester in the said County.

2. This Scheme may be cited as the “Gloucestershire County Council (Castle Meads Bridge) Scheme 2001”.

THE COMMON SEAL of the Council was hereunto affixed in the presence of:

David Rees,

Assistant County Solicitor

11th October 2001

(1)

1980 c. 66.

(2)

S.I. 1997/2971.