Highways Agency

This advertisement supersedes the previous advert of 20 January 2005 in The London Gazette, Cornish Guardian and West Briton .

DEPARTMENT FOR TRANSPORT HIGHWAYS ACT 1980

THE A30 TRUNK ROAD (BODMIN TO INDIAN QUEENS IMPROVEMENT AND SLIP ROADS) ORDER 2005 NO 76

THE A30 TRUNK ROAD (BODMIN TO INDIAN QUEENS IMPROVEMENT AND SLIP ROADS) (DETRUNKING) ORDER 2005 NO 77

THE A30 TRUNK ROAD (BODMIN TO INDIAN QUEENS IMPROVEMENT AND SLIP ROADS) (SIDE ROADS) ORDER 2005

The Secretary of State for Transport 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 A30 Trunk Road (Bodmin to Indian Queens Improvement and Slip Roads) Order 2005 No 76 which:

(1) provides that roads which he proposes to construct along the following routes shall become trunk roads from the date when the Order comes into force:

(a) a route (“the main route”) about 10.77 kilometres (6.69 miles) in length from a point on the A30 Trunk Road at the eastern end of Indian Queens Bypass about 70 metres south-west of the access to Trewin Farm to a point on the A30 Bodmin Bypass about 560 metres north-east of the centre of the Innis Downs roundabout; and
(b) 8 routes for slip roads—4 to connect the new A30 Trunk Road with a new junction at Victoria, and 4 to connect the new A30 Trunk Road with a new junction at Innis Downs.

2. An Order under sections 10 and 12 of the Highways Act 1980, entitled The A30 Trunk Road (Bodmin to Indian Queens Improvement and Slip Roads) (Detrunking) Order 2005 No 77, which provides that a length of the A30 Trunk Road to be superseded by the new trunk road on the main route shall cease to be a trunk road, and shall be classified as classified road, from the date on which the Secretary of State notifies the Cornwall County Council (which 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 A30 Trunk Road and the new trunk road to be constructed by him between Bodmin and Indian Queens in the County of Cornwall. This Order is entitled The A30 Trunk Road (Bodmin to Indian Queens Improvement and Slip Roads) (Side Roads) Order 2005 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 on or in the vicinity of the A30 Trunk Road or the new trunk roads mentioned above and
(2) provides for the transfer of each new highway to the Cornwall County Council as highway authority as 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 seen, free of charge, at all reasonable hours from 17 February 2005, at the Highways Agency, Information Point, 5th Floor, 123 Buckingham Palace Road, London SW1W 9HA; and at the offices of the Highways Agency, Information Point, Room 2/12k, Temple Quay House, 2 The Square, Temple Quay, Bristol BS1 6HA; and of the Cornwall County Council, County Hall, Truro, Cornwall; Cornwall County Council, Central Group Centre, Castle Canyke Road, Bodmin, Cornwall; North Cornwall District Council, Higher Trenant Road, Wadebridge, Cornwall; Restormel Borough Council, Borough Offices, Penwinnick Road, St Austell, Cornwall; Bodmin Town Council, Shire House, Mount Folly Square, Bodmin, Cornwall; Bodmin Library, Lower Bore Street, Bodmin, Cornwall; Redruth Library, Clinton Road, Redruth, Cornwall; St Austell Library, Carlyon Road, St Austell, Cornwall; Fraddon Post Office, 1 Parka Road, Fraddon, Indian Queens, Cornwall; and St Columb Post Office, St Columb, Indian Queens, Cornwall where they are open to inspection, free of charge, at all reasonable hours.
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:

(a) it is not within the powers of the Highways Act 1980, or
(b) any requirement of that Act or of 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 this notice. On such an application, the Court may suspend or quash that Order or any provision in it.
The contact for further information relating to this notice is Neil Chapman of the Highways Agency on 0117 372 8007.
C Jones, Highways Agency
17 February 2005.