The Cardiff to Glan Conwy Trunk Road (A470) (Blaenau Ffestiniog to Cancoed Improvement) Order 2005

Made: 16 August 2005

Coming into force: 1 September 2005

The National Assembly for Wales makes this Order in exercise of powers conferred by section 10 of the Highways Act 1980[^f00001] and of all other enabling powers[^f00002]:—

1

The new highway which the National Assembly for Wales proposes to construct along the route described in Schedule 1 to this Order is to become a trunk road as from the date when this Order comes into force.

2

The centre line of the new trunk road is indicated by a heavy black line on the deposited plan.

3

The length of the trunk road described in Schedule 2 to this Order and shown by broad striped hatching on the deposited plan will cease to be a trunk road and will become an unclassified road as from the date on which the Welsh Assembly Government notifies Gwynedd Council that the new trunk road is open for through traffic.

4

In this Order:—

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

• (b) “the deposited plan” (“y plan a adneuwyd”) means the plan numbered HA10/2 NAFW 6 and marked “The Cardiff to Glan Conwy Trunk Road (A470) (Blaenau Ffestiniog to Cancoed Improvement) Order 2005”, signed on behalf of the Minister for Economic Development and Transport and deposited at the National Assembly for Wales Record Storage and Retrieval Unit, (RSRU), Neptune Point, Ocean Way, Cardiff;

• “the new trunk road” (“y gefnffordd newydd”) means the highway mentioned in Article 1 of this Order;

• the trunk road” (“y gefnffordd”) means the Cardiff to Glan Conwy Trunk Road (A470).

5

This Order comes into force on 1 September 2005 and may be cited as the Cardiff to Glan Conwy Trunk Road (A470) (Blaenau Ffestiniog to Cancoed Improvement) Order 2005.

SCHEDULE 1 — ROUTE OF THE NEW TRUNK ROAD

The route is situated between Blaenau Ffestiniog in the County of Gwynedd and Cancoed in the County Borough of Conwy and is approximately 0.212 kilometres in length starting at a point on the existing trunk road 38 metres east of the property known as Tŷ Mawr (and Tal y Waenydd House) and extending in a northerly direction, terminating at a point on the existing trunk road approximately 38 metres north of the property known as number 18 Oakeley Terrace.

SCHEDULE 2 — LENGTH OF TRUNK ROAD CEASING TO BE A TRUNK ROAD

That length of the trunk road starting at a point on the trunk road 19 metres south east of the south eastern corner of the property known as number 1 Oakeley Terrace and extending in a north easterly direction for approximately 0.14 kilometres to a point on the trunk road approximately 19 metres north of the north eastern corner of the property known as number 18 Oakeley Terrace.

Signed

Signed on behalf of the Minister for Economic Development and Transport.

S. C. Shouler — Director, Transport Policy and Administration — Dated the 16 August 2005

Footnotes

[^f00001]: 1980 c. 66.

[^f00002]: By virtue of S.I. 1999/672, article 2 and Schedule 1, these powers are now conferred upon the National Assembly for Wales in relation to Wales.