The A38 Trunk Road (Plymouth Parkway Slip Roads) (Trunking and Detrunking) Order 2014

Made: 18th July 2014

Coming into force: 22nd August 2014

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]:

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This Order may be cited as the A38 Trunk Road (Plymouth Parkway Slip Roads) (Trunking and Detrunking) Order 2014 and shall come into force on 22nd August 2014.

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In this Order —

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

• (2) —

• (a) “the plan” means the plan numbered HA/10/NDD/008 and marked “The A38 Trunk Road (Plymouth Parkway Slip Roads) (Trunking and Detrunking) Order 2014”, signed by authority of the Secretary of State for Transport and deposited at Document Deposit Service, Communities and Local Government, Floor 13 (IMD), Ashdown House, StLeonards on Sea, Hastings, East Sussex TN377GA;

• (b) “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.

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From the date this Order comes into force:

• (a) the lengths of highways described in Schedule 1 shall become trunk roads, and

• (b) the lengths of the trunk road described in Schedule 2 shall cease to be trunk road and shall be classified as principal road.

SCHEDULE 1) — LENGTHS OF HIGHWAYS BECOMING TRUNK ROADS

The lengths of highways becoming trunk roads are shown by open ladder marking on the plan and are:

• (1) a short section of the exit road about 26 metres in length marked 1 on the plan, from a point on the A38 trunk road westbound off-slip road to the point it joins the roundabout at Marsh Mills Junction, in the City of Plymouth in the County of Devon; and

• (2) four routes marked 2, 3, 4 and 5 on the plan being the entry and exit slip roads connecting the A38 trunk road and the A3064 St Budeaux Bypass, in the City of Plymouth in the County of Devon.

SCHEDULE 2 — LENGTHS OF THE TRUNK ROAD CEASING TO BE TRUNK ROAD

The lengths of the trunk road ceasing to be trunk road are shown by broad black dashes on the plan and are:

• (1) that length of the A38 trunk road marked A on the plan, from the point it joins Forder Valley Junction in a south-eastwards direction for a distance of about 250 metres, in the City of Plymouth in the County of Devon; and

• (2) that length of the A38 trunk road marked B on the plan, from the point it joins Forder Valley Junction in a south-eastwards direction for a distance of about 470 metres, in the City of Plymouth in the County of Devon.

Signed

Signed by authority of the Secretary of State for Transport

Annabelle Dexter — Divisional Director — Highways Agency — 18th July 2014

Explanatory note

(This note is not part of the Order)

EXPLANATORY NOTE

The Plymouth Parkway was opened to traffic in 1985. Since then, various road schemes have been undertaken that have modified the road layout. Various Orders have been made to enable these schemes to be implemented, but over the intervening period of time, the areas of carriageway that are maintained by the Secretary of State and the local authority have changed and it is now necessary to formalise these changes by way of a trunking and de-trunking Order.

The A38 Trunk Road (Marsh Mills Junction Improvement) (Detrunking) Order 1989 detrunked eastern sections of the link roads between Marsh Mills roundabout and Forder Valley roundabout. This Order detrunks the remaining sections of those link roads.

No new areas of carriageway are being created at this time, the only change being to the legal status of the lengths of carriageway covered by this Order.

Footnotes

[^f00001]: 1980 c 66

[^f00002]: SI 1981/238 and SI 2002/2626