The (A43) Oxford—Market Deeping Trunk Road (Blisworth and Milton Malsor Bypass and Slip Roads to Rothersthorpe Service Area) Order 1988

Made: 5th December 1988

Coming into force: 5th January 1989

The Secretary of State for Transport makes this Order in exercise of powers conferred by sections 10, 41 and 106 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 to 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 to 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 trunks 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 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

The length of existing highway described in schedule 3 to this Order and shown by thin striped hatching on the deposited plan shall become a trunk road as from the date when this Order comes into force.

5

The Secretary of State is authorised to construct—

• (a) as part of the main new trunk road, the bridge specified in schedule 4 to this Order;

• (b) as part of the slip road numbered 1 on the deposited plan, the bridge specified in schedule 5 to this Order; and

• (c) as part of the slip road numbered 4 on the deposited plan, the bridge specified in schedule 6 to this Order.

6

In this Order—

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

7

This Order shall come into force on 5th January 1989 and may be cited as the (A43) Oxford—Market Deeping Trunk Road (Blisworth and Milton Malsor Bypass and Slip Roads to Rothersthorpe Service Area) Order 1988.

SCHEDULE 1 — ROUTE OF THE MAIN NEW TRUNK ROAD

The route of the main new trunk road is a route at Blisworth and Milton Malsor in the County of Northamptonshire approximately 6.62 kilometres in length, starting at a point 290 metres north-east of the junction of the existing (A43) trunk road with St John’s Road then going in a generally northerly direction to a point on Banbury Lane, 590 metres south of its junction with the Danes Camp Way/Upton Way Roundabout.

SCHEDULE 2 — ROUTES OF THE SLIP ROADS

SCHEDULE 3 — LENGTH OF EXISTING HIGHWAY TO BECOME TRUNK ROAD

The unclassified road from its junction with Banbury Lane to its junction with the Danes Camp Way/Upton Way Roundabout in the County of Northamptonshire, a distance of approximately 0.6 kilometres.

SCHEDULE 4 — BLISWORTH CANAL BRIDGE

SCHEDULE 5 — ROTHERSTHORPE CANAL BRIDGE (NORTH)

SCHEDULE 6 — ROTHERSTHORPE CANAL BRIDGE (SOUTH)

Signed

Signed by authority of the Secretary of State

P. M. Hewitt — Regional Director East Midlands Region — Department of Transport — 5th December 1988

Footnotes

[^f00001]: 1980 c. 66.

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