The Folkestone—Honiton Trunk Road A35 (Axminster Bypass and Slip Road) (Detrunking) Order 1987

Made: 21st December 1987

Coming into force: 26th January 1988

The Secretary of State for Transport makes this Order in exercise of powers conferred by sections 10 and 12 of the Highways Act 1980[^f00001], and now vested in him[^f00002], and of all other enabling powers:—

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The length of trunk road described in the Schedule to this Order and shown by broad striped hatching on the deposited plan shall cease to be a trunk road and shall be classified as a classified road as from the date on which the Secretary of State notifies the County Council of Devon that the new trunk roads are open for through traffic.

2

In this Order:—

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

• (2)

• (i) “classified road”as a classification for a highway, means that the highway is not a principal road for the purposes of enactments or instruments which refer to highways classified as principal roads but is a classified road for the purpose of every enactment and instrument which refers to highways classified by the Secretary of State and which does not specifically refer to their classification as principal roads;

• (ii) “the deposited plan”means the plan numbered HA10/2—SWM34 marked “The Folkestone—Honiton Trunk Road A35 (Axminster Bypass and Slip Road) (Detrunking) 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;

• (iii) “the new trunk roads”means the trunk roads to be constructed by the Secretary of State in pursuance of the Folkestone—Honiton Trunk Road A35 (Axminster Bypass and Slip Road) Order 1987[^f00003];

• (iv) “the Trunk Road”means the Folkestone—Honiton Trunk Road (A35).

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This Order shall come into force on 26th January 1988 and may be cited as the Folkestone—Honiton Trunk Road A35 (Axminster Bypass and Slip Road) (Detrunking) Order 1987.

SCHEDULE — LENGTH OF ROAD CEASING TO BE A TRUNK ROAD

The length of road ceasing to be a trunk road is that length of the trunk road in the County of Devon which extends for approximately 4.42 kilometres from a point on the Trunk Road approximately 190 metres west of the centre of the bridge which carries the Trunk Road over the River Yarty generally eastwards along Western Road, Anchor Hill, Trinity Square, Lyme Street and Lyme Road to a point about 60 metres south of its junction with Woodbury Lane.

Signed

Signed by authority of the Secretary of State

G.M. Wedd — Regional Director South West Region — Department of Transport — 21st December 1987

Footnotes

[^f00001]: 1980 c. 66.

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

[^f00003]: S.I. 1987/2267.