The A303 Trunk Road (Sparkford to Ilchester Improvement and Slip Roads) Order 1996

• Citation: S.I. 1996/1191
• Sections: 9

Section 1

This Order may be cited as the A303 Trunk Road (Sparkford to Ilchester Improvement and Slip Roads) Order 1996, and shall come into force on 17th May 1996.

Section 2

In this Order—

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

(2)

(i) “the main new roads” means the new highways which the Secretary of State proposes to construct along the routes described in Schedule 1 to this Order;

(ii) “the new trunk roads” means the main new roads and the slip roads;

(iii) “the plan” means the plan numbered HA10/1/SWM/115, marked “The A303 Trunk Road (Sparkford to Ilchester Improvement and Slip Roads) Order 1996”, signed by authority of the Secretary of State for Transport and deposited at the Department of Transport, St Christopher House, Southwark Street, London SE1 0TE; and

(iv) “the slip roads” means the new highways which the Secretary of State proposes to construct along the routes described in Schedule 2 to this Order and which connect the main new roads with other highways at the places stated in that Schedule.

Section 3

The main new roads and the slip roads shall become trunk roads from the date when this Order comes into force.

Section 4

The centre line of each of the new trunk roads is indicated by a heavy black line on the plan.

Section 5

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 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 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 traffic.

Section 1

The route given the reference number “1” on the deposited plan approximately 180 metres in length from a point on the A303 Trunk Road 618 metres east of its junction with Eastmead Lane (Bridleway Y30/28) eastwards to a point 539 metres west of the junction of the A303 Trunk Road with the B3151 at Camel Cross.

Section 2

The route given the reference number “2” on the deposited plan approximately 1.57 kilometres in length from a point on the A303 Trunk Road 356 metres west of its junction with the B3151 north eastwards to a point 111 metres west of the junction of the A303 Trunk Road with Howell Hill/Steart Hill.

Section 3

The route given the reference number “3” on the deposited plan approximately 620 metres in length from a point on the A303 Trunk Road 24 metres east of its junction with Howell Hill/Steart Hill eastwards to a point 235 metres west of the junction of the A303 Trunk Road with Traits Lane.

Section 4

The route given the reference number “4” on the deposited plan approximately 670 metres in length from a point on the A303 Trunk Road 448 metres west of the Sparkford roundabout eastwards to a point on the A303 Trunk Road 192 metres east of that roundabout.