Statutory Instruments
1995 No. 1009

HIGHWAYS, ENGLAND AND WALES
The A5 Trunk Road (Junction 18 (M1) to A5/A5 Link Road Junction) Order 1995

Made
3rd April 1995

Coming into force
14th April 1995

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 A5 Trunk Road (Junction 18 (M1) to A5/A5 Link Road Junction) Order 1995 and shall come into force on 14th April 1995.

(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/EM 109, marked “The A5 Trunk Road (Junction 18 (M1) to A5/A5 Link Road Junction) Order 1995”, signed by authority of the Secretary of State for Transport and deposited at the Department of Transport, Romney House, 43 Marsham Street, London SW1P 3PY.

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

K. I. McKenzie Director
East Midlands Highways Agency
3rd April 1995

THE SCHEDULEROUTE OF THE NEW TRUNK ROAD

The route of the new trunk road is about 0.26 kilometres in length, from a point on the eastern boundary of the existing A5 Trunk Road 490 metres north of its junction with the A428 to points on the western boundary of the existing A5 Link Road 30 metres and 80 metres, respectively, south of its existing junction with the A5 Trunk Road at Crick in the District of Daventry in the County of Northamptonshire. The route comprises part of a roundabout between the two points on the A5 Link Road, the other part of the roundabout is to be within the existing boundaries of that link road.


(1)
1980. c.66.

(2)
S.I. 1981/238.