The London–King’s Lynn Trunk Road (A10) (Brandon Creek – Southery Improvement) Order 1989

Made: 3rd November 1989

Coming into force: 28th November 1989

The Secretary of State for Transport makes this Order in exercise of the 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 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 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 new trunk road is opened for the purposes of through traffic.

4

The length of the trunk road which is described in Schedule 2 to this Order and is shown by broad striped hatching on the deposited plan shall cease to be a trunk road as from the date on which the Secretary of State notifies the County Council of Norfolk that the new trunk road is open for through traffic.

5

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 HA10 2E 291 marked“The London–King’s Lynn Trunk Road (A10) (Brandon Creek – Southery Improvement) 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;

• (iii) “the trunk road”means the London–King’s Lynn Trunk Road (A10).

6

This Order shall come into force on 28th November 1989 and may be cited as the London–King’s Lynn Trunk Road (A10) (Brandon Creek – Southery Improvement) Order 1989.

SCHEDULE 1 — ROUTE OF THE NEW TRUNK ROAD

From Brandon Creek to Southery, in the County of Norfolk, starting at a point on the trunk road 200 metres north of the Brandon Creek Bridge and terminating at a point on the trunk road 350 metres south of its junction with Sedge Fen Road, at Southery (a distance of approximately 0.96 kilometres).

SCHEDULE 2 — LENGTH OF THE TRUNK ROAD CEASING TO BE A TRUNK ROAD

The length of the trunk road ceasing to be a trunk road is between the starting and termination points of the route of the new trunk road (described in Schedule 1 above).

Signed

Signed by authority of the Secretary of State

Alan Whitfield — Regional Director Eastern Region — Department of Transport — 3rd November 1989

Footnotes

[^f00001]: 1980 c. 66.

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