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Statutory Instrument 2001 No. 2688

The A428 Trunk Road (Cambourne Development Trunk Road and Slip Roads) Order 2001

(The document as of February, 2008)

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STATUTORY INSTRUMENTS


2001 No. 2688


HIGHWAYS, ENGLAND


The A428 Trunk Road (Cambourne Development Trunk Road and Slip Roads) Order 2001


 Made19th July 2001 
 Coming into force17th September 2001 

The Secretary of State for Transport, Local Government and the Regions makes this Order in exercise of powers conferred by sections 10, 12 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.This Order may be cited as the A428 Trunk Road (Cambourne Development Trunk Road and Slip Roads) Order 2001 and shall come into force on 17th September 2001.

    2.The new highways which the Secretary of State proposes to construct - 

    (a) along the route described in Schedule 1 to this Order (the highway along this route being in this Order referred to as "the main new trunk road"); and

    (b) along the routes described in Schedule 2 to this Order which connect the main new trunk road with other highways at the places stated in that Schedule (the highways along these routes being in this Order referred to as "the slip roads").

shall become trunk roads as from the date when this Order comes into force.

    3.The centre line of the main new trunk road and of each of the new slip roads is indicated by a heavy black line on the deposited plan.

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

    (a) where the highway is a highway 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 a highway 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 relevant route is opened for the purposes of through traffic.

    5.In this Order - 

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

    (2)

      (i) "the deposited plan"

means the plan folio numbered HA 019/033/0114 marked "The A428 Trunk Road (Cambourne Development Trunk Road and Slips Roads) Order 2001", signed by authority of the Secretary of State for Transport, Local Government and the Regions and deposited at the Highways Agency, St Christopher House, Southwark Street, London SE1 0TE;
(ii) "the Trunk Road"

means the A428 Trunk Road, known locally asSt Neots Road;
(iii) "the main new trunk road" and "the slip roads"

have the meanings given in Article 2 of this Order; and
(iv) "the new trunk roads"

mean the highways mentioned in Article 2 of this Order.



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


W. S. C. Wadrup[a]
A Divisional Director in the Highways Agency

19th July 2001



SCHEDULE 1

ROUTE OF THE MAIN NEW TRUNK ROAD


The route of the main new trunk road is a route at Cambourne, north-east of Caxton in the County of Cambridgeshire, about 1530 metres in length, starting at a point on the Trunk Road about 575 metres east of its junction with the Road to Elsworth to a point on the Trunk Road about 125 metres east of its junction with Monk Drive.



SCHEDULE 2

ROUTES OF THE SLIPS ROAD


Four routes to connect the eastbound and westbound carriageway of the main new trunk road with two roundabouts constructed as part of the Cambourne Development (the new trunk roads along these routes being given the reference numbers 1, 2, 3 and 4 on the deposited plan).

Notes:

[1] 1980 c. 66.back

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


[a] Amended by Correction Slip. Page 2, name of signatory should read "W. S. C. Wadrup" instead of "W. S. C. Loadrup" back


ISBN 0 11 029798 9


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