The A40 London—Fishguard Trunk Road (Swakeleys Road Junction Improvement Trunk Road and Slip Roads) Order 1987

Made: 9th March 1987

Coming into force: 19th March 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 of 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 other 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 the highway which crosses the route of a 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 purpose of through traffic.

4

In this Order—

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

5

This Order shall come into force on 19th March 1987 and may be cited as the A40 London—Fishguard Trunk Road (Swakeleys Road Junction Improvement Trunk Road and Slip Roads) Order 1987.

SCHEDULE 1 — ROUTE OF THE MAIN NEW TRUNK ROAD

The route of the main new trunk road is a route at Hillingdon in the London Borough of Hillingdon, approximately 0.61 kilometres in length, starting at a point on the trunk road 218 metres east of the eastern bank of Fray’s River, then going in a generally easterly direction and ending at a point 70 metres west of its junction with the western side of the public footpath No. U54 on the southern side of the trunk road (the main new trunk road being given the reference number 1 on the deposited plan).

SCHEDULE 2 — ROUTES OF THE SLIP ROADS

The routes of the slip roads are as follows—

• Four routes to connect the eastbound and westbound carriageways of the main new trunk road with a roundabout to be constructed over the main new trunk road at its junction with Swakeleys Road and Park Road at Hillingdon (the new trunk roads along these routes being respectively given the reference numbers 2,3,4 and 5 on the deposited plan).

Signed

Signed by authority of the Secretary of State for Transport

June Brideman — An Under Secretary in the — Department of Transport — 9th March 1987

Footnotes

[^f00001]: 1980 c. 66.

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