The A4123 Trunk Road (Sandwell and Dudley) (Detrunking) Order 2008

Made: 22nd September 2008

Coming into force: 13th November 2008

The Secretary of State for Transport makes this Order in exercise of powers conferred by sections 10 and 12 of the Highways Act 1980¹ and now vested in her²—

1

This Order may be cited as the A4123 Trunk Road (Sandwell and Dudley) (Detrunking) Order 2008 and shall come into force on 13th November 2008.

2

In this Order—

• (i) “the plan” means the plan folio numbered HA 10/OD/315 consisting of sheets 1 and 2 and marked “The A4123 Trunk Road (Sandwell and Dudley) (Detrunking) Order 2008” signed by the authority of the Secretary of State for Transport and deposited at the Department for Transport, Information Management Division, Ashdown House, Sedlescombe Road North, St Leonards-on-Sea, East Sussex TN37 7GA;

• (ii) “principal road” as a classification for a highway, means that the highway is a principal road for the purposes of enactments and instruments which refer to highways classified as principal roads and is also classified for the purpose of every other enactment and instrument which refers to highways classified by the Secretary of State; and

• (iii) “the trunk road” means the A4123 Trunk Road

3

The 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 principal road from the date on which the Order comes into force.

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

The length of the trunk road ceasing to be a trunk road is situated in the Metropolitan Boroughs of Sandwell and Dudley.

It starts at a point on the A4123, 75m south of the centre of the A4123/A463(west) Shaw Road junction, Wolverhampton (point A) and continues in a south easterly direction to a point 8m north of the centre of the A4123/A456 Hagley Road junction, Birmingham (point B).

It is shown by broad black dashes on the plan and is approximately 14km in length

Signed

Signed by authority of the Secretary of State for Transport

Tim Harbot — A Divisional Director, Highways Agency — 22nd September 2008

Explanatory note

(This note is not part of the Order)

This Order reclassifies the length of the road situated between a point on the A4123, 75m south of the centre of the A4123/A463(west) Shaw Road junction, Wolverhampton, to a point 8m north of the centre of the A4123/A456 Hagley Road junction, Birmingham so that it is no longer a trunk road, but becomes a principal road.

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