The London—Penzance Trunk Road A30 (Penhale to Carland Cross Improvement and Slip Roads) Order 1988

Made: 14th July 1988

Coming into force: 4th August 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 highways which the Secretary of State proposes to construct—

• (a) along the routes described in Schedule 1 to this Order (the highway along these routes being in this Order referred to as “the main new trunk roads”); 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 a highway which crosses the route of any of the new trunk roads 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 is 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;

5

This Order shall come into force on 4th August 1988 and may be cited as the London—Penzance Trunk Road A30 (Penhale to Carland Cross Improvement and Slip Roads) Order 1988.

SCHEDULE 1 — ROUTES OF THE NEW TRUNK ROAD

The routes of the main new trunk road are routes between Penhale and Carland Cross in the Districts of Carrick and Restormel in the County of Cornwall and are as follows—

1 a route about 2.17 kilometres in length starting at a point on the trunk road about 580 metres east of the junction with the classified road C381 to Whitecross proceeding in a generally south-westerly direction and ending at a point on the trunk road about 160 metres west of the junction with the unclassified road from Mitchell and given the reference number 1 on the deposited plan;

2 a route about 980 metres in length starting at a point on the trunk road about 35 metres west of the junction with the classified road C185 to St Enoder, proceeding in a generally westerly direction and ending at a point on the trunk road about 50 metres west of the junction with the classified road C052 to St Newlyn East, and given the reference number 4 on the deposited plan; and

3 a route about 430 metres in length starting at a point on the trunk road about 210 metres east of the junction with the classified road C074 to Ladock, proceeding in a generally south-westerly direction and ending at a point on the trunk road about 160 metres west of the junction with the classified road A3076 from Truro at Carland Cross, and given the reference number 7 on the deposited plan.

SCHEDULE 2 — ROUTES OF THE SLIP ROADS

The routes of the slip roads are the following—

1 Junctions with the London—Penzance Trunk Road A30 at Summercourt Two routes to connect the west-bound carriageway of the main new trunk road, as described in 1 of Schedule 1, with the trunk road to the east and west of Summercourt (the new trunk roads along these routes being respectively given the reference numbers 2 and 3 on the deposited plan);

2 Junction with the London—Penzance Trunk Road A30 at Mitchell One route to connect the west-bound carriageway of the main new trunk road as described in 2 of Schedule 1 with the trunk road (the new trunk road along this route being given the reference number 5 on the deposited plan); and

3 Junction with the A3076 to Newquay One route to connect the eastbound carriageway of the main new trunk road as described in 2 of Schedule 1, with a roundabout to be constructed on the classified road A3076 to Newquay (the new trunk road along this route being given the reference number 6 on the deposited plan).

Signed

Signed by authority of the Secretary of State

G.M. Wedd — Regional Director South West Region — Department of Transport — 14th July 1988

Footnotes

[^f00001]: 1980 c. 66.

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