The A523 Trunk Road (Metropolitan Borough of Stockport) (Detrunking) Order 2002

Made26th April 2002

Coming into force17th May 2002

The Secretary of State for Transport, Local Government and the Regions has made this Order in exercise of powers conferred by sections 10 and 12 of the Highways Act 19801 and now vested in him2, and of all other powers enabling him in that behalf:

1

This Order may be cited as the A523 Trunk Road (Metropolitan Borough of Stockport) (Detrunking) Order 2002 and shall come into force on 17th May 2002.

2

In this Order—

i

“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;

ii

“the trunk road” means the A523 Trunk Road; and

iii

“the plan” means the plan folio, numbered HA/10/OD/291 and marked “The A523 Trunk Road (Metropolitan Borough of Stockport) (Detrunking) Order 2002”, signed by authority of the Secretary of State for Transport, Local Government and the Regions and deposited at DTLR Records Management Branch, Ashdown House, Sedlescombe Road North, St Leonards-on-Sea, East Sussex, TN37 7GA.

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 this Order comes into force.

Signed by authority of the Secretary of State for Transport, Local Government and the Regions

Graham BowskillA Divisional Director in the Highways Agency26th April 2002

THE SCHEDULELENGTH OF THE TRUNK ROAD CEASING TO BE A TRUNK ROAD

The length of trunk road ceasing to be a trunk road is between its crossing of the border between the County of Cheshire and the Metropolitan Borough of Stockport at Norbury Brook, north of Poynton (marked “A” on the plan), and continuing in a northerly direction to its junction with the A6 Trunk Road in Hazel Grove (marked “B” on the plan), all in the Metropolitan Borough of Stockport. It is shown by broad black dashes on the plan and is approximately 1.3 kilometres in length.