The A140 Trunk Road (Scole — Dickleburgh Improvement) Order 1993

Made: 25th February 1993

Coming into force: 12th March 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:—

1

The new highway which the Secretary of State proposes to construct along the route described in the Schedule 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 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

In this Order:

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

• (i) “the plan” means the plan numbered HA10/2E/344 marked “The A140 Trunk Road (Scole — Dickleburgh Improvement) 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;

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

• (iii) “the trunk road” means the A140 Trunk Road.

5

This Order shall come into force on 12th March 1993 and may be cited as the A140 Trunk Road (Scole — Dickleburgh Improvement) Order 1993.

THE SCHEDULE — ROUTE OF THE NEW TRUNK ROAD

The route of the new trunk road is at Scole and Thelveton in the counties of Norfolk and Suffolk and is 4.1 kilometres in length. It starts at a point on the trunk road 20 metres north-east of its junction with Old Bury Road (C564), and proceeds in a generally northerly and north-easterly direction crossing the trunk road at a point 261 metres south of its junction with Norgate Lane (U76069) to the trunk road (Norwich Road) at its junction with Ipswich Road (C592), at the western end of the Dickleburgh Bypass.

Signed

Signed by authority of the Secretary of State for Transport

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

Footnotes

[^f00001]: 1980 c. 66.

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