A423 West of Maidenhead—Oxford Trunk Road (Maidenhead Thicket—Burchetts Green Section) and Slip Roads Order 1987

Made: 22nd October 1987

Coming into force: 20th November 1987

The Secretary of State for Transport makes this Order in exercise of powers conferred by sections 10 and 41 of the Highways Act 1980[^f00001], and now vested in him[^f00002], 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 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 lines of the new trunk roads are indicated by heavy black lines 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—

• (1) All measurements of distance are measured along the route of the relevant highway;

5

This Order shall come into force on 20th November 1987 and may be cited as the A423 West of Maidenhead—Oxford Trunk Road (Maidenhead Thicket—Burchetts Green Section) and Slip Roads Order 1987.

SCHEDULE 1 — ROUTE OF THE MAIN TRUNK ROAD

The route of the main new trunk road is a route between Maidenhead Thicket and Burchetts Green in the Borough of Windsor and Maidenhead and County of Berkshire, about 2.04 kilometres in length starting at a point 320 metres north west of the roundabout junction between the A423, the A4 (Bath Road) and the A423(M) motorway and proceeding in a generally northwesterly direction to merge with the A404 Marlow—Bisham Bypass, at a point about 170 metres north of the roundabout junction of the A423 with the A404.

SCHEDULE 2 — THE ROUTES OF THE SLIP ROADS ALL OF WHICH ARE SITUATED IN THE BOROUGH OF WINDSOR AND MAIDENHEAD IN THE COUNTY OF BERKSHIRE

1

Junction with the A4 Bath Road

2

Junction with the existing A423 to be detrunked

Signed

Signed by authority of the Secretary of State.

D. Gruffydd Jones — Regional Director, South East Region, — Department of Transport — 22nd October 1987

Footnotes

[^f00001]: 1980 c. 66.

[^f00002]: S.I. 1981/238.