The (A17) King’s Lynn-Sleaford-Newark Trunk Road (Long Sutton-Sutton Bridge Bypass) Order 1987

Made: 2nd March 1987

Coming into force: 1st April 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 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 force.

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 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 purposes of through traffic.

4

In this Order:—

• (i) “the deposited plan” means the plan numbered HA10/EM29 marked “The (A17) King’s Lynn-Sleaford-Newark Trunk Road (Long Sutton-Sutton Bridge Bypass) Order 198 ” signed by authority of the Secretary of State and deposited at the Department of Transport, Romney House, 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 (A17) King’s Lynn-Sleaford-Newark Trunk Road.

5

This Order shall come into force on 1st April 1987 and may be cited as the (A17) King’s Lynn-Sleaford-Newark Trunk Road (Long Sutton-Sutton Bridge Bypass Order 1987.

THE SCHEDULE — ROUTE OF THE NEW TRUNK ROAD

The route of the new trunk road is at Gedney, Long Sutton, Little Sutton and Sutton Bridge in the County of Lincolnshire approximately 8.43 kilometres in length, starting at a new roundabout with Station Road about 38 metres south of its junction with the Trunk Road. It then proceeds in a south-easterly direction to form a roundabout junction with Cowpers Gate, then in an easterly direction to form roundabout junctions with Wisbech Road and with the realigned Tydd Gote Road. The route then turns in a northerly direction to terminate at the existing junction of the Trunk Road with Tydd Gote Road where it forms a roundabout.

Signed

Signed by authority of the Secretary of State

P. M. Hewitt — Regional Director, East Midlands Region, — Department of Transport — 2nd March 1987.

Footnotes

[^f00001]: 1980. c. 66.

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