The A43 Trunk Road (Silverstone Bypass and Slip Roads) Order 1993

Made: 2nd April 1993

Coming into force: 11th May 1993

The Secretary of State for Transport makes this Order in exercise of powers conferred by sections 10 and 41 of the Highways Act 1980[^f00001], and now vested in him[^f00002], and of all other enabling powers:—

1

The new highways which the Secretary of State proposes to construct—

• (a) along the route described in Schedule 1 to this Order (the highway along this route being in this Order referred to as “the main new trunk road”); and

• (b) along the routes described in Schedule 2 to this Order which connect the main new trunk road with other highways at the places stated in that Schedule (the highways along these routes being in this Order referred to as “the slip roads”).

shall become trunk roads as from the date when this Order comes into force.

2

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

3

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 a highway 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 a highway 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 the purpose of through traffic.

4

In this Order:

• (a) all measurements of distance are measured along the route of the relevant highway and are approximate only;

5

This Order shall come into force on 11th May 1993 and may be cited as the A43 Trunk Road (Silverstone Bypass and Slip Roads) Order 1993.

SCHEDULE 1 — ROUTE OF THE MAIN NEW TRUNK ROAD

The route of the main new trunk road is in the Parishes of Silverstone, Syresham, Whittlebury and Towcester in the District of South Northamptonshire in the County of Northamptonshire.

The route is 4.6 kilometres in length, starting at a point on the trunk road 390 metres south-west of its junction with West End. It then heads in a generally northerly direction terminating at a point on the trunk road 250 metres north of the junction of the trunk road with the C128 Wood Burcote Road.

SCHEDULE 2 — ROUTES OF THE SLIP ROADS

Signed

Signed by authority of the Secretary of State for Transport

D. J. Morrison — Regional Director East Midlands Region — Department of Transport — 2nd April 1993

Footnotes

[^f00001]: 1980 c. 66.