Statutory Instruments
1996 No. 1429

HIGHWAYS, ENGLAND AND WALES
The A66 Trunk Road (Stainburn and Great Clifton Bypass) Order 1996

Made
3rd June 1996

Coming into force
21st June 1996

The Secretary of State for Transport makes this Order in exercise of powers conferred by sections 10 and 41 of the Highways Act 1980(1) and now vested in him(2) and of all other powers enabling him in that behalf: —

1.—(1) This Order may be cited as the A66 Trunk Road (Stainburn and Great Clifton Bypass) Order 1996 and shall come into force on 21st June 1996.

(2) In this Order all measurements of distance are measured along the route of the relevant highway.

2.  The new highway which the Secretary of State proposes to construct along the route described in the Schedule to this Order shall become a trunk road from the date when this Order comes into force.

3.  The centre line of the new trunk road is indicated by a heavy black line on the plan numbered HA/10/RPD/185, marked “The A66 Trunk Road (Stainburn and Great Clifton Bypass) Order 199”, signed by authority of the Secretary of State for Transport and deposited at the Department of Transport, Great Minster House, Marsham Street, London SW1P 4DR.

4.  The Secretary of State directs as respects any part of a highway which crosses the route of the new trunk road 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 new trunk road is opened for traffic.

Signed by authority of the Secretary of State for Transport

R. R. Bineham
Northern Operations Director Highways Agency
3rd June 1996

SCHEDULEROUTE OF THE NEW TRUNK ROAD

The route of the new trunk road is about 3.75 kilometres in length from a point 370 metres east of the junction of the A66 with the C2060, Park End Road at Workington in the County of Cumbria eastwards to a point 275 metres west of its junction with the A595 at Chapel Brow.


(1)
1980 c. 66.

(2)
S.I. 1981/238.