2003 No. 1120

HIGHWAYS, ENGLAND

The A45 Trunk Road (A45/A46 Stonebridge Highway Island, Coventry to the A45/A452 Stonebridge Island) (Detrunking) Order 2003

Made

Coming into force

The Secretary of State for Transport makes 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 A45 Trunk Road (A45/A46 Stonebridge Highway Island, Coventry to the A45/A452 Stonebridge Island) (Detrunking) Order 2003 and shall come into force on 19th May 2003.

2

In this Order—

i

“the plan”

means the plan folio numbered HA 10/OD/483 marked “The A45 Trunk Road (A45/A46 Stonebridge Highway Island, Coventry to the A45/A452 Stonebridge Island) (Detrunking) Order 2003” signed by authority of the Secretary of State for Transport, and deposited at ODPM-DfT Records Management Branch, 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 A45 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

Graham BowskillA Divisional Director, Highways Agency

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

The length of Trunk Road ceasing to be trunk road is:

From a point on the western boundary of the A45/A46 Stonebridge Highway Island, Coventry (but not including the circulatory carriageway), (marked “A” on the plan), and continuing in a westerly direction through the City of Coventry and Districts of Solihull and North Warwickshire in the West Midlands and County of Warwickshire, terminating at a point on the eastern boundary of the A45/A452 Stonebridge Island, (but not including the circulatory carriageway) (marked “B” on the plan), a distance of approximately 15.6 kilometres.

It is shown by broad black dashes on the plan.