The A590 Greenodd to Barrow-in-Furness Trunk Road (Improvement at Melton Terrace) Order 1990

Made: 2nd July 1990

Coming into force: 3rd August 1990

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 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, being a date not later than the date on which the relevant route is opened for the purpose of through traffic.

4

The length of trunk road described in Schedule 2 to this Order and 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 Cumbria that the new trunk road is open for through traffic.

5

In this Order:—

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

• (ii) “the deposited plan” means the plan numbered HA10/1/282 marked “The A590 Greenodd to Barrow-in-Furness Trunk Road (Improvement at Melton Terrace) Order 1990” signed by authority of the Secretary of State and deposited at the Department of Transport, Romney House, 43 Marsham Street, London SWlP 3PY;

• (iii) “the new trunk road” means the highway mentioned in article 1 of this Order; and

• (iv) “the trunk road” means the Greenodd to Barrow-in-Furness Trunk Road (A590).

6

This Order shall come into force on 3rd August 1990 and may be cited as the A590 Greenodd to Barrow-in-Furness Trunk Road (Improvement at Melton Terrace) Order 1990.

SCHEDULE 1 — ROUTE OF THE NEW TRUNK ROAD

The route of the new trunk road is north-east of Dalton-in-Furness in the County of Cumbria and is a route about 0.9 kilometres in length, starting at a point approximately 220 metres west of the junction of Ulverston Road (A590)and the U6097 then going in a generally north-easterly direction to a point on the trunk road approximately 255 metres west of the junction of Ulverston Road (A590) and the C5018.

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 situated between a point 60 metres south west of the junction of the trunk road with the U6097 and a point on the trunk road 285 metres to the north east of the same junction.

Units of length 1 kilometre = 0.621 of a mile approximately 1 metre = 1.094 yards approximately

Signed

Signed by authority of the Secretary of State for Transport

D. C. Renshaw — Regional Director North West Region — Department of Transport — 2nd July 1990

Footnotes

[^f00001]: 1980 c. 66.

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