The A4 and A46 Trunk Roads (Batheaston/Swainswick Bypass and Slip Roads) Order 1993

Made: 15th March 1993

Coming into force: 24th March 1993

The Secretary of State for Transport makes this Order in exercise of powers conferred by Section 10, 41 and 106 of the Highways Act 1980[^f00001], and now vested in him[^f00002], and of all other enabling powers:—

1

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

• (a) along the routes described in Schedule 1 to this Order (the highways along these routes being in this Order together referred to as “the main new trunk road”); and

• (b) along the routes described in Schedule 2 to this Order which connect the main new trunk road with other highways at the places stated in that Schedule (the highways along these routes being in this Order referred to as “the slip roads”),

shall become trunk roads as from the date when this Order comes into force.

2

The centre line of each of the new trunk roads is indicated by heavy black lines 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

The Secretary of State is authorised to construct the bridge specified in Schedule 3 to this Order as part of the main new trunk road.

5

In this order:—

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

• (2)

• (i) “the deposited plan” means the plan numbered HA10/2/SWM/65 marked “The A4 and A46 Trunk Roads (Batheaston/Swainswick Bypass and Slip Roads) 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 roads” means the main new trunk road and the slip roads

6

This Order shall come into force on 15th March 1993 and may be cited as the A4 and A46 Trunk Roads (Batheaston/Swainswick Bypass and Slip Roads) Order 1993.

SCHEDULE 1 — ROUTES OF THE MAIN NEW TRUNK ROAD

The routes of the main new trunk road are routes between Upper Swainswick and Batheaston in the District of Wansdyke and the City of Bath in the County of Avon as follows:—

1 A route given the reference number “1” on the deposited plan about 1.96 kilometres in length starting at a point 200 metres south of the centre line of the existing A46 Trunk Road/Blacksmith Lane Junction in a southerly direction and ending at a point 360 metres east of the centre line of the existing A4/A46 junction at Lambridge.

2 A route given the reference number “2” on the deposited plan about 2.14 kilometres in length starting at a point 360 metres east of the centre line of the existing A4/A46 junction at Lambridge in a south easterly direction and ending at the existing A4/A363 roundabout at Bathford.

SCHEDULE 2 — ROUTES OF THE SLIP ROADS

The routes of the slip roads are the following:

• Junction with the A46 Trunk Road at London Road West.

• Four routes given the reference letters A, B, C and D on the deposited plan to connect the northbound and southbound carriageways of the main new trunk road with the principal road A4 known as London Road West.

Signed

Signed by authority of the Secretary of State for Transport

Elizabeth Hopkins — Regional Director, South West Region — Department of Transport — 24th March 1993

Footnotes

[^f00001]: 1980 c. 66.

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