The A6(M) Motorway (Stockport North–South Bypass) and Connecting Roads Scheme 1989

Made: 25th August 1989

Coming into force: 22nd September 1989

The Secretary of State for Transport makes this Scheme in exercise of powers conferred by sections 16, 17 and 19 of the Highways Act 1980[^f00001], and now vested in him [^f00002], and of all other enabling powers:

1

The Secretary of State is authorised to provide for the use of traffic of Classes I and II of the classes of traffic set out in Schedule 4 to the Highways Act 1980–

• (a) a special road along the route described in Schedule 1 to this Scheme (this special road being in this Scheme referred to as “the Motorway”), and

• (b) special roads along the routes described in Schedule 2 to this Scheme for the purposes of connecting the Motorway with other highways at the places stated in that schedule (these special roads being in this Scheme referred to as “the connecting roads”).

2

The centre line of each of the special roads is indicated by a heavy black line on the deposited plan.

3

The special roads shall become trunk roads on the date when this Scheme comes into force.

4

In this Scheme–

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

5

This Scheme shall come into force on 22nd September 1989, and may be cited as the A6(M) Motorway (Stockport North–South Bypass) and Connecting Roads Scheme 1989.

SCHEDULE 1 — ROUTE OF THE MOTORWAY

A route about 8.11 kilometres in length starting in Brinnington in the Metropolitan Borough of Stockport at a point 74 metres west of the southern end of Cromwell Road and proceeding in a generally southerly direction and ending at a point 150 metres south of the south-western boundary of the Stockport–Buxton railway at Hazel Grove in the Metropolitan Borough of Stockport.

SCHEDULE 2 — ROUTES OF THE CONNECTING ROADS

1

Junction with Buxton Road (A6) Diversion at Hazel Grove

2

Junction with Brinnington Roundabout at Brinnington

Signed

Signed by authority of the Secretary of State

D. C. Renshaw — Regional Director North West Region — Department of Transport — 25th August 1989

Footnotes

[^f00001]: 1980 c. 66.

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