The M32 Motorway (Hambrook Interchange to Lower Ashley Road Interchange) and Connecting Roads Scheme 1989 (Variation for Slip Road Crossing) Scheme 2015

Made: 12th November 2015

Coming into force: 10th December 2015

The Secretary of State for Transport makes this Scheme in exercise of powers conferred by section 16 of the Highways Act 1980[^f00001]:

1

This Scheme may be cited as the M32 Motorway (Hambrook Interchange to Lower Ashley Road Interchange) and Connecting Roads Scheme 1989 (Variation for Slip Road Crossing) Scheme 2015 and shall come into force on 10th December 2015.

2

In this Scheme:

• “the 1989 Scheme” means the M32 Motorway (Hambrook Interchange to Lower Ashley Road Interchange) and Connecting Roads Scheme 1989[^f00002];

• “the deposited plan” means the plan folio numbered HA 16/1 SWM2, marked The M32 Motorway (Hambrook Interchange to Lower Ashley Road Interchange) and Connecting Roads Scheme 1989”, containing 1 map signed by the Secretary of State;

• “the plan” means the plan numbered HA/16/NDD/002 marked The M32 Motorway (Hambrook Interchange to Lower Ashley Road Interchange) and Connecting Roads Scheme 1989 (Variation for Slip Road Crossing) 2015; signed by the authority of the Secretary of State and deposited at Deposited Documents Service, Communities and Local Government, Floor 13 (IMD), Ashdown House Sedlescombe Road North, St Leonards on Sea, Hastings, East Sussex TN37 7GA.

3

The 1989 Scheme was made by the Secretary of State and describes the special roads in South Gloucestershire. These special roads include a route which connects the A4174 Trunk Road at Hambrook Interchange roundabout with the southbound carriageway of the M32 motorway and is given the reference 2 on the deposited plan. The Secretary of State has decided to vary the scheme made under the 1989 Scheme in accordance with this Scheme.

4

Notwithstanding the 1989 Scheme, a section of the connecting road (M32 southbound entry slip road) starting at a point on the slip road 19 metres south of the southern edge of the circulatory carriageway of the A4174 Hambrook Interchange roundabout and forming a 3.2 metre wide strip north west to south east across the slip road, (indicated by reference letter A on the plan) shall cease to be special road but will remain trunk road[^f00003].

Signed

Signed by authority of the Secretary of State

Jon Griffiths — Divisional Director — Department for Transport — 12th November 2015

Explanatory note

(This note is not part of the Scheme)

EXPLANATORY NOTE

This scheme removes the special road classification from a 3.2 metre wide strip across of the southbound connecting road (southbound entry slip road) between the A4174 Hambrook Interchange roundabout and the M32 motorway. The section will remain trunk road. The proposal will allow non-motorised users to cross the slip road. This proposal will formalise the existing practice of non-motorised users.

Footnotes

[^f00001]: 1980 c.66

[^f00002]: S.I. 1989/1716

[^f00003]: Section 326(6) and (7) of the Highways Act 1980.