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1990 No. 2521

HIGHWAYS, ENGLAND AND WALES

The A27 Trunk Road (Westhampnett Bypass and Slip Roads) Order 1990

Made

6th December 1990

Coming into force

1st 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 new highways which the Secretary of State proposes to construct-

(a)along the route described in Schedule 1 to this Order (the highway along this route being in this Order referred to as "the main new trunk road"); and

(b)along the routes described in Schedule 2 to this Order which connect the main new trunk road with other highways at the places stated in that schedule (the highways along these routes being in this Order referred to as "the slip roads"),

shall become trunk roads as from the date when this Order comes into force.

2. The centre line of each of the new trunk roads is indicated by a heavy black line on the deposited plan.

3. The Secretary of State directs as respects any part of a highway which crosses the route of any of the new trunk roads 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 purpose of through traffic.

4. In this Order-

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

(b)(i)"the deposited plan"	means the plan numbered RSE A27/4A/65/2/2, marked "The A27 Trunk Road (Westhampnett Bypass and Slip Roads) Order 1990", signed by authority of the Secretary of State and deposited at the Department of Transport, Romney House, 43 Marsham Street, London, SW1P 3PY;
(ii)"the new trunk roads"	means the main new trunk road and the slip roads; and,
(iii)"the trunk road"	means the Folkestone-Honiton Trunk Road (A27).

5. This Order shall come into force on 1st February 1991 and may be cited as the A27 Trunk Road (Westhampnett Bypass and Slip Roads) Order 1990.

Signed by authority of the Secretary of State for Transport

J. W. Fellows

Regional Director South East Region

Department of Transport

6th December 1990

SCHEDULE 1ROUTE OF THE MAIN NEW TRUNK ROAD

The route of the main new trunk road is at Westhampnett in the County of West Sussex and is about 2300 metres in length, starting at a point on the trunk road about 400 metres north of its junction with Church Road, proceeding in a north easterly direction to a point on the trunk road about 101 metres east of its junction with Strettington Lane End (C63) (this route being given the reference number 1 on the deposited plan).

SCHEDULE 2ROUTES OF THE SLIP ROADS

The routes of the slip roads are as follows-

1. from the westbound carriageway of the trunk road to a roundabout which is to be constructed at the southern end of a new highway leading to Strettington Lane End (C63) (this route being given the reference letter A on the deposited plan);

2. from a roundabout which is to be constructed at the northern end of the new highway referred to at 1. above to the eastbound carriageway of the trunk road (this route being given the reference letter B on the deposited plan);

3. from the roundabout referred to at 1. above to the westbound carriageway of the main new trunk road (this route being given the reference letter C on the deposited plan); and

4. from the eastbound carriageway of the main new trunk road to a roundabout referred to at 2. above (this route being given the reference letter D on the deposited plan).

(1)

1980 c. 66.

(2)

S.I. 1981/238.