The A435 Trunk Road (Studley Bypass and Slip Roads) Order 1993

Made: 15th January 1993

Coming into force: 29th January 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 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 slip roads”), shall become trunk roads as from the date when this Order comes into operation.

2

The centre line 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 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.

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In this Order

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

• (i) “the deposited plan” means the plan consisting of a key plan and two sheets marked “plan 1” and “plan 2” contained in the plan folio numbered HA 10/2 WM 158 marked “The A435 Trunk Road (Studley Bypass and Slip Roads) Order 1993” signed by authority of the Secretary of stated 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.

• (iii) “the trunk road” means the Bath/Lincoln (TR44) Trunk Road (A435).

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This Order shall come into force on 29th January 1993 and may be cited as the A435 Trunk Road (Studley Bypass and Slip Roads) Order 1993.

SCHEDULE 1 — ROUTE OF THE MAIN NEW TRUNK ROAD

The route of the main new trunk road is a route between Alcester and Redditch in the Counties of Warwickshire and Hereford and Worcester which follows a route about 11.2 kilometres in length starting at a point where it joins the Alcester Bypass approximately 450 metres north of Cold Comfort Lane near Alcester in the County of Warwickshire, proceeding in a generally north westerly direction passing to the west of Coughton and east of Sambourne to a point north west of Studley near to where Green Lane is crossed by the dismantled railway. It continues from this point in a generally north easterly direction crossing and recrossing the boundary with the County of Hereford and Worcester to the south east of Redditch and terminating at a point where it meets the Birmingham Road A435 approximately 1300 metres north of its junction with the Warwick Highway (A4189).

SCHEDULE 2 — ROUTES OF THE SLIP ROADS

The routes of the slip roads are two routes to connect the main new trunk road with Icknield Street Drive (B4497) (these new trunk roads being given the reference letters A and B on the deposited plan), and two routes to connect the main new trunk road with Birmingham Road (A435) (these new trunk roads being given the reference letters C and D on the deposited plan).

Signed

Signed by the authority of the Secretary of State for Transport

D. R. Ritchie — Regional Director West Midlands Region — Department of Transport — 15th January 1993

Footnotes

[^f00001]: 1980 c. 66

[^f00002]: S.I. 1981 238