The London–Edinburgh–Thurso Trunk Road (Bramham Moor to Grange Moor and Slip Roads) Order 1989

Made: 16th August 1989

Coming into force: 15th 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 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”),

• (b) along the routes described in Schedule 2 to this Order which connect the Trunk Road with other highways at the places therein stated (the highways along these routes being in this Order referred to as “the A1 slip roads”),

• (c) along the routes described in Schedule 3 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 said 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 said 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 purposes of through traffic.

4

In this Order:–

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

5

This Order shall come into force on 15th September 1989 and may be cited as the London–Edinburgh–Thurso Trunk Road (Bramham Moor to Grange Moor and Slip Roads) Order 1989.

SCHEDULE 1 — ROUTE OF THE MAIN NEW TRUNK ROAD

The route of the main new trunk road is a route at Bramham in the Metropolitan District of Leeds in the County of West Yorkshire about 1210 metres in length starting at a point 71 metres north of Bowcliffe Hall Bridge on the Trunk Road (marked "A' on the site plan) then going in a north westerly direction to cross Tenter Hill (C13) then going northwards to rejoin the Trunk Road at a point 60 metres north of Farfield House (marked "B' on the site plan).

SCHEDULE 2 — ROUTE OF THE A1 SLIP ROADS

The routes of the A1 Slip Roads are routes in the Metropolitan District of Leeds in the County of West Yorkshire as follows:–

(1) Junction with Aberford Road (C166)

(2) Junction with Wattlesyke (A659)

SCHEDULE 3 — ROUTES OF THE SLIP ROADS

The routes of the slip roads are routes in the Metropolitan District of Leeds in the County of West Yorkshire as follows:–

(1) Junction with Tenter Hill (C13)

(2) Junction with New Highway at Bramham

Signed

Signed by authority of the Secretary of State

J. F. Ballard — Regional Director Yorkshire & Humberside Region — Department of Transport — 16th August 1989

Footnotes

[^f00001]: 1980 c. 66.

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