The A40 Trunk Road (Gloucestershire Border to Ross-on-Wye, Herefordshire) (Detrunking) Order 2009

Made: 10th February 2009

Coming into force: 1st April 2009

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 the Secretary of State for Transport [^f00002]:

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This Order may be cited as the A40 Trunk Road (Gloucestershire Border to Ross-on-Wye, Herefordshire) (Detrunking) Order 2009 and shall come into force on 1st April 2009.

2

In this Order -

• (i) “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;

• (ii) “the trunk road” means the A40 Trunk Road; and

• (iii) “the plan” means the plan folio, numbered HA 10/PS/312, marked “The A40 Trunk Road (Gloucestershire Border to Ross-on-Wye, Herefordshire) (Detrunking) Order 2009 ”, signed by 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.

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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 starts from the Herefordshire/Gloucestershire border (marked “A” on the plan) and continues in a north westerly direction to a point 44 metres south east of the centre of the A40/A449 Over Ross roundabout at Ross-on-Wye, Herefordshire (marked “B” on the plan), all in the area of Herefordshire Council. It is shown by broad black dashes on the plan and is approximately 9 kilometres in length.

Signed

Signed by authority of the Secretary of State for Transport

Graham Bowskill — A Divisional Director in the Highways Agency — 10th February 2009

Explanatory note

(This note is not part of the Order)

This Order reclassifies the length of A40 situated between the Herefordshire/Gloucestershire border to a point 44m south east of the centre of the A40/A449 Over Ross roundabout at Ross-on-Wye, Herefordshire, so that it is no longer a trunk road but becomes a principal road.

Footnotes

[^f00001]: 1980 c. 66.

[^f00002]: S.I. 1997/2971.