M1/A1 (Sprucefield Interchange) Order (Northern Ireland) 2003

SCHEDULE

PART I the new roads to be constructed as special and trunk roads and part of the m1 motorway and t3

Approximately 2866 metres of new slip roads in the townland of Magherageery and County of Down consisting of:–

(a) approximately 620 metres extending in an easterly direction from a point on the M1 approximately 1837 metres west of the centre point of the bridge carrying the M1 motorway over the T4(A1) Hillsborough Road to a point on the new roundabout north of the M1 motorway approximately 1217 metres west of that bridge more particularly delineated, coloured green and marked S1 on the map;

(b) approximately 895 metres extending in an easterly direction from a point on the new roundabout north of the M1 motorway approximately 1217 metres west of the centre point of the bridge carrying the M1 motorway over the T4(A1) Hillsborough Road to a point on the M1 motorway approximately 322 metres west of that bridge more particularly delineated coloured green and marked S2 on the map;

(c) approximately 701 metres extending in a westerly direction from a point on the new roundabout south of the M1 motorway approximately 1217 metres west of the centre point of the bridge carrying the M1 motorway over the T4(A1) Hillsborough Road to a point on the M1 motorway approximately 1918 metres west of that bridge more particularly delineated coloured green and marked S3 on the map; and

(d) approximately 650 metres extending in a westerly direction from a point on the M1 motorway approximately 567 metres west of the centre point of the bridge carrying the M1 motorway over the T4 (A1) Hillsborough Road to a point on the new roundabout south of the M1 motorway approximately 1217 metres west of that bridge more particularly delineated coloured green and marked S4 on the map.

PART II the new roads to be constructed as trunk roads and part of the t4

Approximately 1247 metres of new roads in the townland of Magherageery and County of Down consisting of:–

(a) approximately 893 metres extending in a generally north-westerly direction from a point on the present T4 (A1) approximately 460 metres south-west of the Sprucefield roundabout to a point approximately 111 metres north of the M1 motorway including two new roundabouts and an underpass to carry the road under the M1 motorway more particularly delineated and hatched red and hatched yellow respectively on the map;

(b) approximately 315 metres extending in a south-westerly direction from a point on the present T4 approximately 238 metres south-west of the Sprucefield roundabout to a point approximately 553 metres south-west of that roundabout including a new roundabout more particularly delineated and hatched red on the map; and

(c) approximately 39 metres extending in a westerly direction from the Sprucefield roundabout more particularly delineated and hatched red on the map.

PART III the road to be abandoned

The present westbound on slip road from the Sprucefield roundabout to the M1 motorway more particularly delineated and coloured yellow on the map.

PART IV the roads to be stopped-up to road traffic

1.  The present eastbound off slip road:

(a) at its junction with the M1 more particularly delineated and shown by the line A-B on the map; and

(b) at a line approximately 460 metres from its junction with the M1 more particularly delineated and shown by the line C-D on the map.

2.  T4(A1) Hillsborough Road at a line approximately 550 metres south-west of the Sprucefield roundabout more particularly delineated and shown by the line E-F on the map.