The A303 Trunk Road (Sparkford to Ilchester Improvement and Slip Roads) Order 1996

Made: 26th April 1996

Coming into force: 17th May 1996

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 powers enabling him in that behalf: —

1

This Order may be cited as the A303 Trunk Road (Sparkford to Ilchester Improvement and Slip Roads) Order 1996, and shall come into force on 17th May 1996.

2

In this Order—

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

• (2)

• (i) “the main new roads” means the new highways which the Secretary of State proposes to construct along the routes described in Schedule 1 to this Order;

• (ii) “the new trunk roads” means the main new roads and the slip roads;

• (iii) “the plan” means the plan numbered HA10/1/SWM/115, marked “The A303 Trunk Road (Sparkford to Ilchester Improvement and Slip Roads) Order 1996”, signed by authority of the Secretary of State for Transport and deposited at the Department of Transport, St Christopher House, Southwark Street, London SE1 0TE; and

• (iv) “the slip roads” means the new highways which the Secretary of State proposes to construct along the routes described in Schedule 2 to this Order and which connect the main new roads with other highways at the places stated in that Schedule.

3

The main new roads and the slip roads shall become trunk roads from the date when this Order comes into force.

4

The centre line of each of the new trunk roads is indicated by a heavy black line on the plan.

5

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 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 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 traffic.

SCHEDULE 1 — ROUTE OF THE NEW TRUNK ROAD

The routes of the main new roads are routes between the eastern end of the Ilchester Bypass and the western end of the Sparkford Bypass in the District of South Somerset in the County of Somerset as follows:—

1 The route given the reference number “1” on the deposited plan approximately 180 metres in length from a point on the A303 Trunk Road 618 metres east of its junction with Eastmead Lane (Bridleway Y30/28) eastwards to a point 539 metres west of the junction of the A303 Trunk Road with the B3151 at Camel Cross.

2 The route given the reference number “2” on the deposited plan approximately 1.57 kilometres in length from a point on the A303 Trunk Road 356 metres west of its junction with the B3151 north eastwards to a point 111 metres west of the junction of the A303 Trunk Road with Howell Hill/Steart Hill.

3 The route given the reference number “3” on the deposited plan approximately 620 metres in length from a point on the A303 Trunk Road 24 metres east of its junction with Howell Hill/Steart Hill eastwards to a point 235 metres west of the junction of the A303 Trunk Road with Traits Lane.

4 The route given the reference number “4” on the deposited plan approximately 670 metres in length from a point on the A303 Trunk Road 448 metres west of the Sparkford roundabout eastwards to a point on the A303 Trunk Road 192 metres east of that roundabout.

SCHEDULE 2 — ROUTES OF THE SLIP ROADS

The routes of the slip roads are as follows:—

• Junction with the Sparkford Roundabout

• Two routes to connect the main new road with the Sparkford roundabout (the slip roads along these routes being respectively given the letters A and B on the plan);

Signed

Signed by authority of the Secretary of State for Transport

D W Ward — Director Southern Operations Division Road Programme Directorate Highways Agency — 26th April 1996

Footnotes

[^f00001]: 1980 c. 66.

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