HIGHWAYS ACT 1980

The Birmingham Northern Relief Road and Connecting Roads Scheme 1998

The Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions hereby gives notice that he has made a Scheme under sections 16, 17, 19, 106 and 108 of the Highways Act 1980, entitled “The Birmingham Northern Relief Road and Connecting Roads Scheme 1998”, which:

  (1) authorises him to provide for the exclusive use of traffic of Classes I and II of the classes of traffic set out in Schedule 4 to the Highways Act 1980:

    (a) a special road (one part of “the motorway”), about 33 kilometres in length as follows:

      (i) Laney Green to Shenstone, from a point on the M6 Motorway approximately 1,100 metres north of the Laney Green Interchange; crossing the A460 Principal Road at a point approximately 600 metres north-east of Laney Green; across the A5 Trunk Road at Churchbridge, crossing Ogley Hay Road at a point 200 metres north of its junction with Green Lane, across the A5127 Principal Road to the north of Shenstone; across Streetway Road to a point approximately 500 metres south-east of this crossing;
      (ii) Shenstone to Langley Mill, from the point previously mentioned approximately 500 metres to the south-east of Streetway Road; crossing the A453 Tamworth Road at a point approximately 800 metres west of the A453/A38 Trunk Road junction to a point on Holly Lane approximately 200 metres west of its junction with the A446 Trunk Road;
      (iii) Langley Mill to Curdworth, from the point previously mentioned on Holly Lane approximately 200 metres west of its junction with the A446 Trunk Road; crossing the Birmingham and Fazeley Canal at a point 150 metres south-west of its crossing with the A446; to a point on the M42 Motorway approximately 600 metres south of its junction with the A446 Trunk Road north-east of Curdworth.

    (b) about 3.7 kilometres in length from a point on the M42 Motorway approximately 500 metres south of the Gilson Drive running southwards generally at a point on the M6 Motorway approximately 1,300 metres east of its junction with the A446 Trunk Road south of Coleshill.
    (c) twenty-three roads to connect the motorway with other highways at Middle Hill, Cheslyn Hay; Churchbridge, Cannock; Chasewater, Brownhills; Shenstone; Weeford; Littleworth End; Langley Mill, Sutton Coldfield; Wishaw; Dunton, Curdworth; Wheeley Moor Farm, Coleshill.
    (d) five special roads to connect the motorway to a proposed Motorway Service area at Norton Canes.

  (2) authorises him to construct as part of the motorway, bridges over the navigable waters of the Wyrley and Essington Canal (Anglesey Branch) and the Birmingham and Fazeley Canal and to divert the Birmingham and Fazeley Canal and adjacent towing paths in connection with the construction of that bridge; and
  (3) provides for each of the new special roads to become a trunk road insofar as it consists of newly constructed road on the date when the Scheme comes into force.

  Copies of the Scheme and plans referred to in it have been deposited at the Highways Agency, Project Services, Room 12/27 St. Christopher House, Southwark Street, London SE1 0TE; the Highways Agency, Broadway, Broad Street, Birmingham B15 1BL; and at Birmingham City Council, Council House, Victoria Square, Birmingham; Cannock Chase District Council, The Council House, Beecroft Road, Cannock, Staffordshire; Lichfield District Council, Council Offices, Frog Lane, Lichfield, Staffordshire; Walsall Metropolitan Borough Council, Civic Centre, Darwall Street, Walsall, West Midlands; North Warwickshire Borough Council, Council House, South Street, Atherstone, Warwickshire; South Staffordshire District Council, Council Offices, Wolverhampton Road, Codsall, Wolverhampton, West Midlands; Norton Canes Library, Burntwood Road, Norton Canes, Cannock; Shenstone Library, Main Street, Shenstone, Walsall; Burntwood and Chase Terrace Library, Sankeys Corner, Burntwood, Lichfield; Cheslyn Hay Library, High Street, Cheslyn Hay, Walsall; Water Orton Library, Mickle Meadow, Coleshill Road, Water Orton, Birmingham; Brownhills Library, Bricklin Street, Brownhills, Walsall; Coleshill Libary, 141 High Street, Coleshill, Birmingham; Sutton Coldfield Library, Lower Parade, Sutton Coldfield and Reddicap Heath Post Office, 53 Reddicap Heath Road, Sutton Coldfield where they are open to inspection, free of charge, at all reasonable hours from 12th February 1998 to 3rd April 1998.
  Copies of the Scheme can be purchased through booksellers or direct from government bookshops (HMSO). It is numbered S.I. 1998/121 and is priced £1.55.
  Any person aggrieved by the Scheme who desires to question its validity, or the validity of any provision in it, on the grounds that it is not within the powers of the Highways Act 1980, or any requirement of that Act or of any regulations made under that Act has not been complied with in relation to the Scheme may apply to the High Court within 6 weeks from the date of first publication of this notice. On such an application, the Court may suspend or quash the Scheme or any povision in it.
G. P. Rainbow, Highways Agency 4th February 1998.