The A604 Catthorpe–Harwich Trunk Road (Thrapston to Brampton Section and Slip Roads) Order (No. 2) 1987 Variation Order and New Trunk Roads Order 1990

Statutory Instruments

1990 No. 2649

HIGHWAYS, ENGLAND AND WALES

The A604 Catthorpe–Harwich Trunk Road (Thrapston to Brampton Section and Slip Roads) Order (No. 2) 1987 Variation Order and New Trunk Roads Order 1990

Made

20th December 1990

Coming into force

8th February 1991

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), and of all other enabling powers:

1.  The A604 Catthorpe–Harwich Trunk Road (Thrapston to Brampton Section and Slip Roads) Order (No. 2) 1987(3) (hereinafter referred to as “the principal Order”) is varied as follows —

(a) paragraphs (b) and (d) of Schedule 2, and paragraph (v) of Schedule 3, to that Order are deleted; and

(b) the markings on Map No 3 in the deposited plan, within the meaning of that Order, which relate to the routes described in those paragraphs, namely, the heavy black lines given the reference numbers “iii” and “iv” and the narrow striped hatching given the reference number “5”, shall be disregarded.

2.  The new highways which the Secretary of State proposes to construct along the routes described in Schedule 1 to this Order shall become trunk roads as from the date on which this Order comes into force.

3.  The centre line of each of the new highways is shown by a heavy black line on the site plan in the deposited plan.

4.  The length of highway described in Schedule 2 to this Order, indicated by narrow striped hatching on the said site plan, shall become a trunk road as from the date on which the Secretary of State notifies the Cambridgeshire County Council that the new highways mentioned in paragraph 2 of Schedule 1 to this Order are open for through traffic.

5.  The Secretary of State directs as respects any part of a highway which crosses the route of any of the new highways that —

(a) where the highway is a highway maintainable at the public expense by a 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 Secretary of State shall be under no duty to maintain the part in question, until, in either case, a date to be specified in a notice given by the Secretary of State to the highway authority for that highway. The date specified will not be later than the date on which the relevant route is opened for the purposes of through traffic.

6.  In this Order —

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

(2) (i) “the deposited plan” means the plan folio numbered HA10/2E/314 marked “The A604 Catthorpe–Harwich Trunk (Thrapston to Brampton Section and Slip Roads) (No. 2) 1987 Variation Order and New Trunk Roads Order 1990” containing a key plan and one site plan, signed by authority of Secretary of State and deposited at the Department of Transport, Romney House, 43 Marsham Street, London SW1P 3PY;

(ii) “the new highways” means the highways mentioned in article 2 of this Order, and “a new highway” means one of those highways;

(iii) “the A1 trunk road” means the A1 London–Edinburgh–Thurso Trunk Road.

7.  This Order shall come into force on 8th February 1991 and may be cited as the A604 Catthorpe–Harwich Trunk Road (Thrapston to Brampton Section and Slip Roads) Order (No. 2) 1987 Variation Order and New Trunk Roads Order 1990.

Signed by authority of the Secretary of State for Transport Regional Director

Peter Emms

Eastern Region

Department of Transport

20th December 1990

SCHEDULE 1 ROUTES OF THE NEW HIGHWAYS

1.  Junction with the re-aligned A1 Trunk Road.

(a) Four slip roads to connect the northbound and southbound carriageways of the A1 Trunk Road (as re-aligned) with the roundabout to be constructed north of the Brampton Hotel, at Brampton Hut in the County of Cambridgeshire (which roundabout is described in (b) below). The new highways along these routes are given the reference numbers 1, 2, 3 and 4 on the site plan in the deposited plan.

(b) A new roundabout north of the Brampton Hotel, to connect those slip roads with the main new trunk road described in paragraph (iv) of Schedule 1 to the principal Order. The dimensions of this roundabout are about 210 metres by 100 metres, with the realigned A1 being carried over it by means of two bridges. The roundabout is given the reference number 5 on the site plan in the deposited plan.

2.  Junction with the A141 Thrapston Road.

Two slip roads to connect the eastbound and westbound carriageways of the main new trunk road described in paragraph (v) of Schedule 1 to the principal Order and a third slip road to connect the eastbound carriageway of the highway to become trunk road described in paragraph (vii) of Schedule 3 of the principal Order, with a proposed new road linking to the A141 Thrapston Road at Brampton in the County of Cambridgeshire. North of this main new trunk road, the two slip roads connect with the proposed new roundabout, and south of that main new trunk road the third slip road connects with the proposed new road at a tee junction. The new highways along these routes are given, respectively, reference numbers 6, 7 and 8 on the site plan in the deposited plan.

SCHEDULE 2 HIGHWAY TO BECOME TRUNK ROAD

That length of the A604 Brampton Link Road which lies between its junction with the A141 Thrapston Road and its junction with the westbound carriageway of the highway to become trunk road described in paragraph (vii) of schedule 3 to the principal Order, a distance of 300 metres.

• This length of highway is given the reference letter A on the site plan in the deposited plan.

(1)

1980 c. 66.

(2)

S.I. 1981/238.

(3)

S.I. 1987/840.