Statutory Instruments
1987 No. 1334

HIGHWAYS, ENGLAND AND WALES
The (A65) Liverpool—Preston—Leeds Trunk Road (Heathness Gill to Lumb Gill Lane) (Detrunking) Order 1987

Made
23rd July 1987

Coming into force
28th August 1987

The Secretary of State for Transport makes this Order in exercise of powers conferred by Sections 10 and 12 of the Highways Act 1980(1), and now vested in him(2), and of all other enabling powers:

1.  The length of the Trunk Road described in the Schedule to this Order and shown by broad striped hatching on the deposited plan shall cease to be a trunk road and shall be classified as a classified road as from the date on which the Secretary of State notifies the County Council of West Yorkshire that the new trunk road is open for through traffic.

2.  In this Order:

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

(2) (i)  “classified road”

as a classification for a highway means that the highway is not a principal road for the purposes of enactments or instruments which refer to highways classified as principal roads but is a classified road for the purpose of every enactment and instrument which refers to highways classified by the Secretary of State and which does not specifically refer to their classification as a principal road;

(ii) “the deposited plan”

means the plan folio numbered HA 10-YH98 marked “The (A65) Liverpool—Preston—Leeds Trunk Road (Heathness Gill to Lumb Gill Lane) (Detrunking) Order 1987”, signed by authority of the Secretary of State and deposited at the Department of Transport, Romney House, 43 Marsham Street, London SW1P 3PY;

(iii) “the new trunk road”

means the highway to be provided in pursuance of the (A65) Liverpool—Preston—Leeds Trunk Road (Addingham Bypass) Order 1987(3); and

(iv) “the Trunk Road”

means the Liverpool—Preston—Leeds Trunk Road (A65)

3.  This Order shall come into force on the 28th August 1987 and may be cited as the (A65) Liverpool—Preston—Leeds Trunk Road (Heathness Gill to Lumb Gill Lane) (Detrunking) Order 1987.

Signed by authority of the Secretary of State

J. F. Ballard
Regional Director Yorkshire and Humberside Region
Department of Transport
23rd July 1987

SCHEDULELENGTH OF TRUNK ROAD CEASING TO BE A TRUNK ROAD

1.  That length of the Trunk Road from a point (marked “C” on the deposited plan) 230 metres south-east of its junction with Highfield House access track to a point (marked “D” on the deposited plan) 320 metres north-west of its junction with Lumb Gill Lane.

(1)
1980 c. 66.

(2)
S.I. 1981/238.

(3)
S.I. 1987/1333.