Government Office for the North East

HIGHWAYS ACT 1980

THE LANCASHIRE COUNTY COUNCIL (IMPROVEMENT TO THE A6 LONDON WAY/VICTORIA ROAD, WALTON-LE-DALE, SOUTH RIBBLE, CLASSIFIED ROAD) (SIDE ROADS AND OTHER WORKS) ORDER 1999

The Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions, hereby gives notice that he has confirmed with modifications the above-named Order which was made by the Lancashire County Council under sections 14 and 125 of the Highways Act 1980 and which, as confirmed, authorises the Council to: (a) improve highways (including raising, lowering or otherwise altering); (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 on or in the vicinity of the route of the classified road known as the A6 London Way/Victoria Road, Walton-le-Dale, South Ribble, which the County Council are proposing to improve from a point 110 metres north-east of the intersection of its centreline with the centreline of Capitol Way, northwards, to the southern edge of Walton Bridge, which is a highway to be improved and which is a highway which is a classified road in accordance with section 12 of the Highways Act 1980. Copies of the Order (as confirmed) and of the relevant plans may be seen at all reasonable hours, free of charge, at the offices of the Lancashire County Council, Christ Church Precinct, County Hall, Preston; Town Clerk and Chief Executive’s Department, Preston Borough Council, Town Hall, Preston; Chief Executive’s Department, South Ribble Borough Council, Civic Centre, West Paddock, Leyland; Divisional Library, Harris Library, Market Square, Preston, and at Bamber Bridge Library, Station Road, Bamber Bridge. Any person aggrieved by the Order and desiring to question the validity thereof, or of any provision contained therein, on the ground that it is not within the powers of the Highways Act 1980 or on the ground that any requirement of that Act or of any regulations made thereunder has not been complied with in relation to the Order, may, within 6 weeks of 17th December 1999, apply to the High Court for the suspension or quashing of the Order or of any provision contained therein. R. Murray, a Higher Executive Officer in the Department of the Environment, Transport and the Regions. Local Authority Orders, Room 810, Wellbar House, Gallowgate, Newcastle upon Tyne NE1 4TD.  (Ref. DN5063/55/7/12.) 9th December 1999.