Highways Agency

HIGHWAYS ACT 1980

THE A5 TRUNK ROAD (NESSCLIFFE BYPASS) ORDER 1999 THE A5 TRUNK ROAD (NESSCLIFFE BYPASS) DETRUNKING ORDER 1999 THE A5 TRUNK ROAD (NESSCLIFFE BYPASS) SIDE ROADS ORDER 1999

The Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions hereby gives notice that he has made the following Orders: 1. An Order under sections 10 and 41 of the Highways Act 1980, entitled the A5 Trunk Road (Nesscliffe Bypass) Order 1999, which provides that the road which he proposes to construct along the following route shall become a trunk road from the date when the Order comes into force: a route (“the main route”) at Nesscliffe in the county of Shropshire about 5.1 kilometres in length from a point on the A5 Trunk Road 83 metres north west of its junction with the County Road B4396 (A5 to Knockin Road) at Nesscliffe to a point on the A5 Trunk Road 495 metres north-west of its junction with the County Road D1202A (Rodefern Lane). 2. An Order under sections 10 and 12 of the Highways Act 1980, entitled the A5 Trunk Road (Nesscliffe Bypass) Detrunking Order 1999, which provides that a length of the A5 Trunk Road to be superseded by the new trunk road on the main route shall cease to be a trunk road, and shall be classified as a classified road, from the date on which the Secretary of State notifies Shropshire County Council (who will become the highway authority responsible for that length) that the new trunk road on the main route is open for traffic. 3. An Order under sections 12, 14 and 125 of the Highways Act 1980, in relation to the A5 Trunk Road and the new trunk road referred to at 1 above. The Order is entitled the A5 Trunk Road (Nesscliffe Bypass) Side Roads Order 1999 and it: (1) authorises him to: (a) improve highways, (b) stop up highways, (c) construct new highways, (d) stop up private means of access to premises, and (e) provide new means of access to premises, all in the vicinity of the main new road: and (2) provides for the transfer of each new highway (except for that to be constructed for temporary purposes) to the County of Shropshire as highway authority from the date on which he notifies them that it has been completed and is open for traffic. Copies of each Order and the plans referred to in it have been deposited and may be inspected, free of charge, from 5th August 1999 until 16th September 1999, at all reasonable hours at the Highways Agency, Project Services Division, Room 5/46A, St. Christopher House, Southwark Street, London SE1 0TE, and Project Services Division, Room C5, Broadway, Broad Street, Birmingham B15 1BL; Shropshire County Council, The Shirehall, Abbey Foregate, Shrewsbury SY2 6ND; Shrewsbury and Atcham Borough Council, The Guildhall, Dog Pole, Shrewsbury SY1 1ER, and Oswestry Borough Council, Council Offices, Castle View, Oswestry SY11 1JR. Copies of the Orders referred to in paragraphs 1 and 2 above can be purchased through booksellers or direct from government bookshops (The Stationery Office). They are respectively numbered S.I. 1999/1987 and S.I. 1999/1986 and priced 65p each. Copies of the Order referred to in paragraph 3 above can be obtained from The Highways Agency, Room C5, Broadway, Broad Street, Birmingham B15 1BL. Any person aggrieved by an Order mentioned in this notice who desires to question its validity, or the validity of any provision in it, on the ground 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 that Order, 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 Order or any provision in it. G. Rainbow, a Grade 7 Officer, Project Services Division, The Highways Agency. 20th July 1999.