The (A49) Shrewsbury to Whitchurch to Warrington Trunk Road (Improvement at Holloway Mouth) Order 1988

Made: 20th April 1988

Coming into force: 17th June 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(b), and of all other enabling powers:

1

The new highway which the Secretary of State proposes to construct along the route described in Schedule 1 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 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 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;

• (2)

• (i) “the deposited plan”means the plan numbered HA 10/2 WM 129 marked“The (A49) Shrewsbury to Whitchurch to Warrington Trunk Road (Improvement at Holloway Mouth) Order 1988”, 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 trunk road”means the highway mentioned in article 1 of this Order;

• (iii) “the trunk road”means the Shrewsbury to Whitchurch to Warrington Trunk Road (A49).

5

This Order shall come into force on 17th June 1988 and may be cited as the (A49) Shrewsbury to Whitchurch to Warrington Trunk Road (Improvement at Holloway Mouth) Order 1988.

SCHEDULE — ROUTE OF THE NEW TRUNK ROAD

The route of the new trunk road is a route at Holloway Mouth in the County of Shropshire about 0.125 kilometres in length starting at a point 78 metres north west of the junction of the trunk road and Footpath No. 4 then going in a generally northerly direction to a point 164 metres south west of the junction of the trunk road and the unclassified road to Weston-under-Redcastle.

Signed

Signed by authority of the Secretary of State

H. F. Ellis-Rees — Regional Director West Midlands Region — Department of Transport — 20th April 1988

Footnotes

[^f00001]: 1980 c. 66.