Statutory Instrument 2001 No. 2213

The A249 Trunk Road (Neatscourt Roundabout to Queenborough Improvement) Order 2001

(The document as of February, 2008)

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STATUTORY INSTRUMENTS

2001 No. 2213

HIGHWAYS, ENGLAND

The A249 Trunk Road (Neatscourt Roundabout to Queenborough Improvement) Order 2001

	Made	13 June 2001
	Coming into force	5 July 2001

The Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions makes this Order in exercise of powers conferred by sections 10 and 41 of the Highways Act 1980[1] and now vested in him[2], and of all other powers enabling him in that behalf:

    1. - (1) This Order may be cited as the A249 Trunk Road (Neatscourt Roundabout to Queenborough Improvement) Order 2001 and shall come into force on 5 July 2001.

    (2) In this Order measurements of distance are measured along the route of the relevant highway.

    2.The new highway which the Secretary of State proposes to construct along the route described in the Schedule to this Order shall become a trunk road from the date when this Order comes into force.

    3.The centre line of the new trunk road is indicated by a heavy black line on the plan numbered HA 10/PS/299 marked "The A249 Trunk Road (Neatscourt Roundabout to Queenborough Improvement) Order 2001" signed by authority of the Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions and deposited at the Highways Agency, St Christopher House, Southwark Street, London SE1 0TE.

    4.The Secretary of State directs as respects any part of a highway which crosses the route of the new trunk road that - 

(a) where the highway is maintainable at the public expense by a local highway authority, the part in question shall be maintained by that authority; and

(b) where the highway is not so maintainable and is not maintainable under a special enactment or by reason of tenure, enclosure, or prescription, the Secretary of State shall be under no duty to maintain the part in question.

until, in either case, a date to be specified in a notice given by the Secretary of State to the highway authority for that highway. The date specified will not be later than the date on which the new trunk road is opened for traffic.



Signed by the authority of the Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions


David W. Ward
Divisional Director Project Services Highways Agency

13 June 2001

SCHEDULE
Route of the New Trunk Road

A route being about 1.07 kilometres in length, from a point on the access road to Neatscourt Car Depot 130 metres from its junction with the A249 trunk road, to a point on the existing A249 trunk road about 450 metres north of the Queensborough roundabout, in the Borough of Swale in the County of Kent.

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Notes:

[1] 1980 c. 66.back

[2] S.I. 1997/2971.back

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ISBN 0 11 029590 0

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