The A604 Catthorpe-Harwich Trunk Road (Thrapston to Brampton Section and Slip Roads) Order (No.2) 1987

Made: 1st May 1987

Coming into force: 12th June 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:

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The new highways which the Secretary of State proposes to construct—

• (a) along the routes described in Schedule 1 (the highways along these routes being in this Order referred to as “the main new trunk roads”); and

• (b) along the routes described in Schedule 2 which connect the main new trunk roads described in paragraphs (iii) and (iv) of Schedule 1 with the other highways at the places stated in Schedule 2 (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 highways are indicated by heavy black lines on the deposited plan.

3

Each length of highway described in Schedule 3 and indicated by narrow striped hatching on the deposited plan, shall become a trunk road as from the date on which the Secretary of State notifies the highway authority for that length that the new highways are open for through traffic.

4

The Secretary of State directs as respects any part of a highway which crosses the route of any of the new highways 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.

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In this Order:—

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

• (2)

• (i) “the deposited plan” means the plan folio numbered HA10/2E/260 marked “The A604 Catthorpe-Harwich Trunk Road (Thrapston to Brampton Section and Slip Roads) Order (No.2) 1987” containing a key plan and three maps bound together and numbered 1 to 3 inclusive, 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 highways” means the main new trunk roads and the slip roads and “a new highway” means one of those highways;

• (iii) “the A604” means the length of the A604 Trunk Road which is between Thrapston in the County of Northamptonshire and Brampton in the County of Cambridgeshire, known as the Kettering-Huntingdon Road;

• (iv) “the Al Trunk Road” means the A1 London-Edinburgh-Thurso Trunk Road; and

• (v) “the A14 Trunk Road” means the length of the A14 Trunk Road in the County of Cambridgeshire which is known as the Huntingdon and Godmanchester Bypass.

• (3) A reference to a Schedule followed by a number is a reference to the Schedule bearing that number in this Order.

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This Order shall come into force on 12th June 1987 and may be cited as the A604 Catthorpe-Harwich Trunk Road (Thrapston to Brampton Section and Slip Roads) Order (No.2) 1987.

SCHEDULE 1 — ROUTES OF THE MAIN NEW TRUNK ROADS

The routes of the main new trunk roads are as described below, all going in a generally easterly direction between Thrapston in the County of Northamptonshire and Brampton in the County of Cambridgeshire, and totalling about 6.6 kilometres in length—

• (i) from a point on the A604, as proposed to be improved, about 455 metres west of Tollbar Lane, Keyston eastwards for a distance of about 4.02 kilometres to a point on the A604, as proposed to be improved, about 405 metres west of the B660 Catworth Road, Catworth, in the Parishes of Bythorn and Keyston, Brington and Molesworth, and of Catworth, Cambridgeshire, and the centre line of this new trunk road is marked “A” on Map No.1 in the deposited plan;

• (ii) from a point on the A604, as proposed to be improved, about 72 metres east of Woolley Hill Road, Easton, eastwards for a distance of about 102 metres to a point on the A604, as proposed to be improved, about 184 metres east of that junction, in the Parish of Easton, Cambridgeshire, and the centre line of this new trunk road is marked “B” on Map No.2 in the deposited plan;

• (iii) from a point on the A604, as proposed to be improved, about 240 metres north-west of its junction with the C166 Grafham Road, Ellington, eastwards for a distance of about 1.09 kilometres to a point on the A604, as proposed to be improved, about 880 metres east of that junction, in the Parish of Ellington, Cambridgeshire, and the centre line of this new trunk road is marked “C” on Map No.2 in the deposited plan;

• (iv) from a point on the A604, as proposed to be improved, about 310 metres west of the A1 Trunk Road at Brampton Hut Roundabout, eastwards for a distance of about 760 metres to a point on the A604, as proposed to be improved, about 320 metres east of that junction, in the Parish of Brampton, Cambridgeshire, and the centre line of this new trunk road is marked “D” on Map No.3 in the deposited plan; and

• (v) from a point on the A604, as proposed to be improved, about 530 metres west of its junction with the A141 Thrapston Road, Brampton, eastwards for a distance of about 625 metres to a point on the A604 Brampton Link Road, as proposed to be improved, about 300 metres north-east of that junction, in the Parish of Brampton, Cambridgeshire, and the centre line of this new trunk road is marked “E” on Map No.3 in the deposited plan.

SCHEDULE 2 — ROUTES OF THE SLIP ROADS

The routes of the slip roads are the following—

• (a) two routes given the reference numbers i and ii on Map No.2 in the deposited plan, to connect the eastbound carriageway of the main trunk road, described in paragraph (iii) of Schedule 1, with a roundabout to be constructed by the Secretary of State as part of a new road leading to the A604 Kettering-Huntingdon Road at Ellington, Cambridgeshire;

• (b) a route given the reference number iii on Map No.3 in the deposited plan, to connect the main new trunk road described in paragraph (iv) of Schedule 1 at Brampton Hut Roundabout, Brampton, Cambridgeshire, with that section of the A604, described in paragraph (v) of Schedule 3 hereto, which is to become trunk road; and

• (c) a route given the reference number iv on Map No.3 in the deposited plan, from that section of the main new trunk road described in paragraph (iv) of Schedule 1, which bifurcates to connect it with the southbound carriageway of the A1 Trunk Road at Brampton Hut Roundabout, Brampton, Cambridgeshire.

SCHEDULE 3 — HIGHWAY TO BECOME TRUNK ROADS

The lengths of highway to become trunk roads are those lengths of the A604 Kettering-Huntingdon Road between Thrapston, in the County of Northamptonshire, and Brampton in the County of Cambridgeshire, which total about 16.65 kilometres and are described below—

• (i) from a point about 200 metres east of Titchmarsh Road, eastwards for a distance of about 3.64 kilometres to a point about 455 metres west of Tollbar Lane, Keyston, in the Parishes of Thrapston and Titchmarsh in the County of Northamptonshire, and the Parish of Bythorn and Keyston, Cambridgeshire and numbered 1 on Map No.1 in the deposited plan;

• (ii) from a point about 405 metres west of the B660 Catworth Road, Catworth, eastwards for a distance of about 7.11 kilometres to a point about 80 metres east of Woolley Hill Road, Easton, in the Parishes of Catworth, Leighton, Spaldwick and Easton, Cambridgeshire, and numbered 2 on Map No.2 in the deposited plan;

• (iii) from a point about 180 metres east of Woolley Hill Road eastwards for a distance of about 950 metres to a point about 240 metres north-west of its junction with the C166 Grafham Road, Ellington, in the Parishes of Easton and Ellington, Cambridgeshire, and numbered 3 on Map No. 2 in the deposited plan;

• (iv) from a point about 880 metres east of its junction with the C166 Grafham Road, Ellington, eastwards for a distance of about 2.33 kilometres to a point about 320 metres west of the Al Brampton Hut Roundabout, in the Parishes of Ellington and Brampton, Cambridgeshire, and numbered 4 on Map No.3 in the deposited plan;

• (v) from a point about 160 metres west of the A1 Brampton Hut Roundabout eastwards for a distance of about 160 metres to its junction with the A1 at the Brampton Hut Roundabout in the Parish of Brampton, Cambridgeshire, and numbered 5 on Map No.3 in the deposited plan;

• (vi) from a point about 340 metres east of the A1 at the Brampton Hut Roundabout eastwards for a distance of about 480 metres to a point about 530 metres west of its junction with the A141 Thrapston Road, in the Parish of Brampton, Cambridgeshire, and numbered 6 on Map No.3 in the deposited plan; and

• (vii) from a point on the A604 Brampton Link Road about 300 metres north-east of its junction with the A141 Thrapston Road, Brampton, north-eastwards for a distance of about 1.98 kilometres to a point about 110 metres north-east of the centre line of the Huntingdon and Godmanchester Bypass A14 (T), in the Parishes of Brampton and The Stukeleys, Cambridgeshire, and numbered 7 on Map No.3 in the deposited plan.

Signed

Signed by authority of the Secretary of State

G.D. Crane — Regional Director, Eastern Region, — Department of Transport — 1st May 1987

Footnotes

[^f00001]: 1980 c. 66.

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