The A10 Trunk Road (Wadesmill, High Cross and Colliers End Bypass and Slip Road) Order 1993

Made: 25th November 1993

Coming into force: 24th December 1993

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:

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The new highways which the Secretary of State proposes to construct—

• (a) along the route described in Schedule 1 to this Order (the highway along this route being in this Order referred to as “the main new trunk road”), and

• (b) along the route described in Schedule 2 to this Order which connects the main new trunk road with other highways at the place stated in that schedule (the highway along this route being in this Order referred to as “the slip road”), shall become trunk roads as from the date when this Order comes into force.

2

The centre lines of each of the new trunk roads 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 any of the new trunk roads 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 relevant route is opened for the purpose of through traffic.

4

In this Order:

• (a) each measurement of distance is measured along the route of the relevant highway;

• (b)

• (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 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 numbered HA10/2E/332, marked “The A10 Trunk Road (Wadesmill, High Cross and Colliers End Bypass and Slip Road) Order 1993”, signed by authority of the Secretary of State and deposited at the Department of Transport, Romney House, 43 Marsham Street, London SW1P 3PY;

• (iii) “the new trunk roads” means the main new trunk road and the slip road and “a new trunk road” means one of those highways;

• (iv) “the Side Roads Order” means the A10 Trunk Road (Wadesmill, High Cross and Colliers End Bypass and Slip Road) Side Roads Order 1993; and

• (v) “the trunk road” means the London to Kings Lynn Trunk Road (A10).

5

This Order shall come into force on 24th December 1993 and may be cited as the A10 Trunk Road (Wadesmill, High Cross and Colliers End Bypass and Slip Road) Order 1993.

SCHEDULE 1 — ROUTE OF THE MAIN NEW TRUNK ROAD

A route about 7.2 kilometres in length, starting at the point on the trunk road where it is crossed by the southern side of the A1170 overbridge (at the northern end of the Ware Bypass), then swinging to the east of the trunk road in a generally northerly direction to rejoin it at the southern side of its roundabout junction with the A120 road (at the southern end of the Puckeridge Bypass).

SCHEDULE 2 — ROUTE OF THE SLIP ROAD AT THE NORTHERN END OF THE WARE BYPASS

A route to connect the eastbound carriageway of the main new trunk road with the trunk road, as proposed to be improved by the Secretary of State pursuant to the Side Roads Order. The slip road along this route is given the reference number 2 on the deposited plan.

Signed

Signed by authority of the Secretary of State for Transport

Peter Emms — Regional Director Eastern Region — Department of Transport — 25th November 1993

Footnotes

[^f00001]: 1980 c. 66.

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