The A1 in Northumberland: Morpeth to Ellingham Development Consent Order 2024

Classification of roads etc.

15.—(1) On the date on which the roads described in Part 1 (trunk roads) of Schedule 3 (classification of roads, etc) are complete and open for traffic, they are to become trunk roads as if they had become so by virtue of an order under section 10(2) (general provisions as to trunk roads) of the 1980 Act specifying that date as the date on which they were to become trunk roads.

(2) Those roads specified in Part 2 (roads to be de-trunked) of Schedule 3 are to cease to be trunk roads and will vest in the local highway authority on—

(a) the date on which the roads described in Part 1 (trunk roads) of Schedule 3 (classification of roads, etc) become trunk roads; or

(b) the date agreed between the undertaker and the local highway authority following the local highway authority’s agreement that those roads are in a state of repair as is reasonably satisfactory to them or, in default of agreement, settled by arbitration in accordance with article 49 (arbitration),

whichever is the later, as if they had ceased to be so by virtue of an order under section 10(2)(1) of the 1980 Act specifying that date as the date on which they were to cease to be trunk roads.

(3) On the date on which the roads described in Part 3 (classified roads) of Schedule 3 (classification of roads, etc.) are completed and open for traffic, they are to become classified roads for the purpose of any enactment or instrument which refers to highways classified as classified roads as if such classification had been made under section 12(3) (general provision as to principal and classified roads) of the 1980 Act.

(4) On the date on which the roads described in Part 4 (unclassified roads) of Schedule 3 (classification of roads, etc.) are completed and open for traffic, they are to become unclassified roads for the purpose of any enactment or instrument which refers to unclassified roads.

(5) On and after the date that the public rights of way described in Part 5 (other public rights of way) of Schedule 3 (classification of roads, etc.) are completed and open for use they will be of the types described in column (1) to the extent described in column (2).

(6) On and after the date that the footways and cycleways described in Part 6 (footways and cycleways to be provided) of Schedule 3 (classification of roads, etc.) are completed and open for use they will be of the types described in column (1) to the extent described in column (2).

(7) The application of paragraphs (1) to (6) may be varied or revoked by any instrument made under any enactment which provides for the variation or revocation of such matters.

(8) Notwithstanding the extent of any road shown on the rights of way and access plans any road which is subject to this article includes the verge of that road.

(1)

Section 10(2) was amended by section 22(2)(a) of the New Roads and Street Works Act 1991 and by section 1(6) of, and paragraphs 1 and 10(1) and (2) of Schedule 1 to, the Infrastructure Act 2015 (c. 7).