The (A500) Hanford-Etruria Principal Road (Trunking) and (A34) Winchester-Preston Trunk Road (De-trunking from Hanford to Talke) Order 1990

Made: 15th February 1990

Coming into force: 1st April 1990

The Secretary of State for Transport makes this Order in exercise of powers conferred by section 10 of the Highways Act, 1980[^f00001], and now vested in him[^f00002], and of all other enabling powers:

1

The length of the A500 Principal Road described in Schedule 1 to this Order and shown by continuous black marking on the deposited plan shall become a trunk road as from the date this Order comes into force.

2

The length of the Trunk Road described in Schedule 2 to this Order and shown by broken black marking on the deposited plan shall cease to be a trunk road and shall be classified as a principal road as from the date this Order comes into force.

3

In this Order—

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

• (2)

• (i) “the deposited plan” means the plan numbered HA10/2 WM 141 marked “The (A500) Hanford-Etruria Principal Road (Trunking) and (A34) Winchester-Preston Trunk Road (De-trunking from Hanford to Talke) Order 1990” signed by authority of the Secretary of State and deposited at the Department of Transport, Romney House, 43 Masham Street, London, SW1 3PY; and

• (ii) “a principal road” as a classification for a highway, is a principal road for the purpose of enactments and instruments which refer to highways classified as principal roads and is also classified for the purpose of every other enactment and instrument which refers to highways classified by the Secretary of State.

4

This Order shall come into force on 1st April 1990 and may be cited as the (A500) Hanford-Etruria Principal Road (Trunking) and (A34) Winchester-Preston Trunk Road (De-trunking from Hanford to Talke) Order 1990.

SCHEDULE 1 — LENGTH OF HIGHWAY TO BECOME TRUNK ROAD

The length of highway to become a trunk road is the A500 in the City of Stoke-on-Trent and in the Borough of Newcastle-under-Lyme in the County of Staffordshire, from the intersection with the slip roads to the west of the Hanford Interchange to the intersection with the slip roads to the north ofthe Etruria Road Interchange, a distance of approximately 6.20 kilometres, including the following slip roads —

• (a) the slip roads leading to that road from, and from that road to, the eastern end of the Hanford Interchange,

• (b) all the slip roads leading to that road from, and from that road to, the A5006 (Campbell Road) at Sideway,

• (c) the slip road leading to that road from, and from that road to, the B5045 at Cliffe Vale,

• (d) the slip road leading to that road from, and from that road to, the southern end of the Etruria Road Interchange.

SCHEDULE 2 — LENGTH OF HIGHWAY CEASING TO BE TRUNK ROAD

The length of highway ceasing to be a trunk road is the A34 Trunk Road in the City of Stoke-on-Trent and in the Borough of Newcastle-under-Lyme in the County of Staffordshire from the Hanford Interchange to the Talke Road Roundabout, a distance of approximately 9.78 kilometres.

Signed

Signed by authority of the Secretary of State for Transport

D R Ritchie — Regional Director — Department of Transport West Midlands Region — 15th February 1990

Footnotes

[^f00001]: 1980 c. 66

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