The Bath to West of Southampton Trunk Road A36 (Beckington Bypass) Order 1987

Made: 27th November 1987

Coming into force: 8th January 1988

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 highway which the Secretary of State proposes to construct along the route described in the Schedule to this Order shall become a trunk road as from the date when this Order comes into operation.

2

The centre line of the new trunk road 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 the new trunk road 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 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 purposes of through traffic.

4

In this Order —

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

• (2)

• (i) “the deposited plan” means the plan numbered HA10/2-SWM37 marked “The Bath to West of Southampton Trunk Road A36 (Beckington Bypass) Order 1987” 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 road” means the highway mentioned in article 1 of this Order; and

• (iii) “the Trunk Road” means “the Bath to West of Southampton Trunk Road A36”.

5

This Order shall come into force on 8th January 1988 and may be cited as “the Bath to West of Southampton Trunk Road A36 (Beckington Bypass) Order 1987”.

SCHEDULE — ROUTE OF THE NEW TRUNK ROAD

a route about 3.4 kilometres in length, starting at a point on the Trunk Road about 50 metres north west of Straight Lane and then going generally south eastwards, crossing the Trunk Road west of White Row Farm and east of Limerick Farm and re-joining it about 270 metres north west of Rudge Road.

Signed

Signed by authority of the Secretary of State

G. M. Wedd — Regional Director South West Region — Department of Transport — 27th November 1987

Footnotes

[^f00001]: 1980 c. 66.

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