Statutory Instruments
HIGHWAYS, ENGLAND AND WALES
Made
1st July 1999
Coming into force
5th August 1999
1.-(1) This Order may be cited as the A5 Trunk Road (Nesscliffe Bypass) Order 1999 and shall come into force on 5th August 1999.
(2) In this Order all measurements of distance are measured along the route of the relevant highway.
2. The new highway which the Secretary of State proposes to construct along the route described in the Schedule to this Order shall become a trunk road from the date when this Order comes into force.
3. The centre line of the new trunk road is indicated by a heavy black line on the plan numbered HA10/2WM176-“1, marked "The A5 Trunk Road (Nesscliffe Bypass) Order 1999", signed by authority of the Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions and deposited at the Department of the Environment, Transport and the Regions, Ashdown House, Zone 2, Room 2/A4, 123 Victoria Street, London SW1E 6DE.
4. The Secretary of State directs as respects any part of a highway which crosses the route of the new trunk road that-“
(a)where the highway is 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 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 new trunk road is opened for traffic.
Signed by authority of the Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions
J P Boud
Director Highways Agency Project Services Division
1st July 1999
The route of the new trunk road is about 5.1 kilometres in length, from a point on the A5 Trunk Road 83 metres north west of its junction with the County Road B4396 (A5 to Knockin Road) at Nesscliffe (in the county of Shropshire) to a point on the A5 Trunk Road 495 metres north west of its junction with the County Road D1202A (Rodefern Lane).
S.I. 1997/29.