Statutory Instruments
HIGHWAYS, ENGLAND
Made
26th April 2002
Coming into force
17th May 2002
1. This Order may be cited as the A38 Trunk Road (Worcestershire/Gloucestershire) (Detrunking) Order 2002 and shall come into force on 17th May 2002.
2. In this Order—
(i)“the plan” means the plan folio numbered HA 10/OD/307 consisting of sheets 1, 2 and 3 and marked “The A38 Trunk Road (Worcestershire/Gloucestershire) (Detrunking) Order 2002,” signed by the authority of the Secretary of State for Transport, Local Government and the Regions and deposited at DTLR Records Management Branch, Floor 13 (IMD), Ashdown House, St. Leonards on Sea, Hastings, East Sussex TN37 7GA;
(ii)“principal road” as a classification for a highway, means that the highway is a principal road for the purposes of enactments and instruments which refer to highways classified as principal roads and is also classified for the purpose of every other enactment and instrument which refers to highways classified by the Secretary of State; and
(iii)“the trunk road” means the A38 Trunk Road
3. The length of the trunk road described in the Schedule to this Order shall cease to be a trunk road and shall be classified as a principal road from the date on which the Order comes into force.
Signed by authority of the Secretary of State for Transport, Local Government and the Regions
Graham Bowskill
A Divisional Director in the Highways Agency
26th April 2002
The length of the trunk road ceasing to be a trunk road is situated in the Counties of Worcestershire and Gloucestershire in the Districts of Bromsgrove and Wychavon and in the Borough of Tewkesbury. It is shown by broad black dashes on the plan and is approximately 31 km in length. Starting at a point on the A38 105m east of the centre of Callowbridge Road overbridge at the Worcestershire County/Birmingham City boundary (point A on the plan) it continues in a southwesterly direction to a point 20m north east of the northeastern intersection of the A38 and the circulatory carriageway of the Lydiate Ash roundabout, Junction 4 of the M5 motorway (point B).
It resumes at a point 23m south east of the southeastern intersection of the A38 and the circulatory carriageway of the Lydiate Ash roundabout, Junction 4 of the M5 motorway (point C) and continues in a southerly direction to a point 20m north of the northern intersection of the A38 and the circulatory carriageway of the Lickey End roundabout, Junction 1 of the M42 motorway (point D).
It resumes at a point 20m south of the southern intersection of the A38 and the circulatory carriageway of the Lickey End roundabout, Junction 1 of the M42 motorway (point E) and continues southwards to a point 170m south of the junction of the A38 and School Lane (point F).
It resumes at a point coincident with the southwestern intersection of the A38 and the circulatory carriageway of the A38/B4094 Roundabout at Stoke Heath (point G) and continues in a southwesterly direction to a point 21m northeast of the northeastern intersection of the A38 and the circulatory carriageway of the roundabout at Junction 5 of the M5 motorway (point H).
It resumes at a point 20m southwest of the southwestern intersection of the A38 and the circulatory carriageway of the roundabout at Junction 5 of the M5 motorway (point I) and continues in a southwesterly direction to a point on the A38 at the centre of Leather Bridge near to the Chateau Impney north of Droitwich Spa (point J).
It resumes at the centre of the junction of the A38 with Pulley Lane, south of Droitwich Spa (point K) and continues in a southwesterly direction to a point 487m southwest of the centre of the junction of the A38 with Claines Lane north of Worcester (point L).
It resumes at the centre of the junction of the A38 with Taylors Lane, south of Worcester (point M) and continues in a southerly direction to a point 22m north of the northern intersection of the A38 and the circulatory carriageway of the roundabout at Junction 1 of the M50 motorway (point N).
S.I. 1981/238.