The Fox Valley Way (formerly Steelworks East Access off the A616 Trunk Road, Stocksbridge Bypass) (Detrunking) Order 2016

Made: 5th May 2016

Coming into force: 13th May 2016

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[^f00002]:

1

This Order may be cited as the Fox Valley Way (formerly Steelworks East Access off the A616 Trunk Road, Stocksbridge Bypass) (Detrunking) Order 2016 and shall come into force on 13th May 2016.

2

In this Order:

• (i) “the plan” means the plan numbered HA10/NDD/005, marked “The Fox Valley Way (formerly Steelworks East Access off the A616 Trunk Road, Stocksbridge Bypass) (Detrunking) Order 2016”, signed by authority of the Secretary of State for Transport and deposited at Communities and Local Government, Deposited Document Services, Room F13, Ashdown House, St Leonards on Sea, Hastings, East Sussex, TN37 7GA;

• (ii) “classified road” as a classification for a highway, means that the highway is not a principal road for the purposes of enactments and instruments which refer to highways classified as principal roads but is a classified road for the purpose of every enactment and instrument which refers to highways classified by the Secretary of State and which does not specifically refer to their classification as principal roads; and

• (iii) “the trunk road” means the length of trunk road described in the Schedule to this Order, in the District of Sheffield in the County of South Yorkshire.

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 classified road as from the date on which the Order comes into force.

SCHEDULE — LENGTH OF TRUNK ROAD CEASING TO BE TRUNK ROAD

The length of trunk road ceasing to be a trunk road is the length of Fox Valley Way (formerly known as the “Steelworks East Access”) from its junction with the A616 Trunk Road (Stocksbridge Bypass) to the point where the road becomes a private means of access (a distance of approximately 140 metres); as shown by heavy black hatching on the plan.

Signed

Signed by authority of the Secretary of State for Transport

CJ Miller — A Senior Civil Servant in the Department for Transport — 5th May 2016

Explanatory note

(This note is not part of the Order)

EXPLANATORY NOTE

The purpose of the Order is to authorise the Secretary of State to remove the trunk road status from the length of trunk road described in the Schedule to the Order. The responsibility for the maintenance of this length of road will thereafter pass to the local Highway Authority, which is Sheffield City Council.

Footnotes

[^f00001]: 1980 c.66.

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