The A16 Trunk Road (Spalding to Sutterton Improvement) (Detrunking) Order 1991

Made: 15th March 1991

Coming into force: 28th March 1991

The Secretary of State for Transport makes this Order in exercise of powers conferred by sections 10 and 12 of the Highways Act 1980[^f00001], and now vested in him[^f00002], and of all other enabling powers:

1

On the operative date, if the length of the trunk road described in Schedule 1 to this Order and shown by broad striped hatching on the deposited plan is then still a trunk road—

• (a) that length shall cease to be a trunk road, and

• (b) the lengths thereof which are described in Schedule 2 to this Order shall be classified as classified roads.

2

In this Order—

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

• (2)

• (i) “classified road” as a classification for a highway, means that the highway is not a principal road for the purposes of enactments or instruments which refer to highways classified as principal roads but is a classified road for the purpose of every enactment and instrument which refers to highways classified by the Secretary of State and which does not specifically refer to their classification as principal roads;

• (ii) “the deposited plan” means the plan consisting of three sheets numbered HA 1O/EM68 marked “The A16 Trunk Road (Spalding to Sutterton Improvement) (Detrunking) Order 1991”, signed by authority of the Secretary of State and deposited at the Department of Transport, Romney House, 43 Marsham Street, London SWIP 3PY;

• (iii) “the new trunk road” means the trunk road to be constructed by the Secretary of State in pursuance of the A16 Trunk Road (Spalding to Sutterton Improvement) Order 1991[^f00003];

• (iv) “the operative date” means the date on which the Secretary of State notifies the County Council of Lincolnshire that the new trunk road is open for through traffic;

• (v) “the trunk road” means the A16 Norman Cross-Grimsby Trunk Road.

3

This Order shall come into force on 28th March 1991 and may be cited as the A16 Trunk Road (Spalding to Sutterton Improvement) (Detrunking) Order 1991.

SCHEDULE 1 — LENGTH OF THE TRUNK ROAD CEASING TO BE A TRUNK ROAD

The length of the trunk road which ceases to be a trunk road is in Spalding, and in the Parishes of Pinchbeck, Surfleet, Gosberton, Wigtoft and Sutterton, in the County of Lincolnshire, and is between a point 245 metres due south of Luck’s Bridge, (to the south of Spalding) and its junction with the A17 Trunk Road at Sutterton, a distance of approximately 20.06 kilometres.

SCHEDULE 2 — LENGTHS OF ROAD TO BE CLASSIFIED ROADS

Lengths of the road described in Schedule 1 to this Order which are classified roads are—

• (1) between a point 245 metres due south of Luck’s Bridge (to the south of Spalding) and its junction with Bridge Street, a distance of approximately 4,400 metres (this length being marked A on the deposited plan), and

• (2) between its junction at Hall Place with New Road and its junction with the A17 Trunk Road at Sutterton, a distance of approximately 15,700 metres (this length being marked C on the deposited plan).

Signed

Signed by authority of the Secretary of State for Transport

D. J. Morrison — Regional Director, East Midlands Region, — Department of Transport — 15th March 1991

Footnotes

[^f00001]: 1980 c. 66.

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

[^f00003]: S.I. 1991/753.