The Levens Bridge – Carlisle Trunk Road (A595 Hensingham Bypass) Order 1989

Made: 9th August 1989

Coming into force: 1st September 1989

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 highway which the Secretary of State proposes to construct along the route described in the Schedule hereto 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 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 route is opened for the purposes of through traffic.

4

In this Order:–

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

• (2)

• (i) “the deposited plan” means the plan numbered HA10/1 CNW 258, marked “The Levens Bridge – Carlisle Trunk Road (A595 Hensingham Bypass) Order 1989.” 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.

5

This Order shall come into force on 1st September 1989 and may be cited as the Levens Bridge – Carlisle Trunk Road (A595 Hensingham Bypass) Order 1989.

SCHEDULE — ROUTE OF THE NEW TRUNK ROAD

The route of the new trunk road is at Hensingham in the County of Cumbria (about 1.05 kilometres in length), starting at a point 65 metres south of the junction of Loop Road South (A595) and Inkerman Terrace, then going in a southerly direction to a point immediately north of the junction of Egremont Road (A595) and Homewood Road.

Signed

Signed by authority of the Secretary of State Department of Transport

D. C. Renshaw — Regional Director North West Regio — 9th August 1989

Footnotes

[^f00001]: 1980 c. 66.

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