The A23 Trunk Road (Coulsdon Inner Relief Road) (Detrunking) Order 1994

Made: 6th April 1994

Coming into force: 21st April 1994

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

This Order may be cited as the A23 Trunk Road (Coulsdon Inner Relief Road) (Detrunking) Order 1994 and shall come into force on 21st April 1994.

2

In this Order:

• (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 new trunk roads” has the meaning given in article 2(2)(ii) of the A23 Trunk Road (Coulsdon Inner Relief Road, Trunk Road and Slip Roads) Order 1994;[^f00003] and

• (iii) “the trunk road” means the A23 Trunks Road known locally as Brighton Road.

3

Each length of the trunk road described in the Schedule to this Order shall cease to be a trunk road and shall be classified as a classified road from the date on which the Secretary of State notifies the Council of the London Borough of Croydon that the new trunk roads are open for traffic.

THE SCHEDULE — LENGTHS OF THE TRUNK ROAD CEASING TO BE A TRUNK ROAD

The lengths of the trunk road ceasing to be a trunk road are situated at Coulsdon in the London Borough of Croydon, and run between—

• (a) a point 211 metres north-east of the northern boundary of the property known and “Birchfield”, and a point on the northern kerbline of the western entrance to British Rail’s Coulsdon South Station, a distance of 450 metres, and

• (b) a point 35 metres north-west of the western corner of the Wika Instruments Limited warehouse and its junction with Windermere Road, a distance of 569 metres.

They are shown by broad black dashes on the plan folio numbered LRO 64/60/2/02-2, marked “The A23 Trunk Road (Coulsdon Inner Relief Road) (Detrunking) Order 1994”, signed by authority of the Secretary of State for Transport and deposited at the Department of Transport, Romney House, 43 Marsham Street, London SW1P 3PY.

Signed

Signed by authority of the Secretary of State for Transport

I. Yass — Regional Director London Region — Department of Transport — 6th April 1994

Footnotes

[^f00001]: 1980 c. 66.

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

[^f00003]: S.I. 1994/1037.