STATUTORY INSTRUMNTS
197 No.
HIGHWAYS, ENGLAND AND WALES

The London-Canterbury—Dover Trunk Road (Canterbury
By—Pass) Order 197.

Made 197
Coming into Operation 197

The Secretary of State for the Environment makes this Order in
exercise of powers conferred by sections 7, 20 and 44 of the Highways
Act 1959 (a) and section 68 of the Highways Act 1971 (b) and now vested
in him (c), and of all other enabling powers:—

1. The new highway which the Secretary of State proposes to construct
along the route described in Schedule 1 to this Order shall become a trunk
road as from the date when this Order comes into operation.

2, The centre line of the 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 the new trunk road 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 purposes of through traffic.

 

(a) 1959 0.25 (b) 19710.41

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specif_ie“d‘in Schedu.'Lef2 to this Order as part of the new trunk?
road "referred to in Schedule 1 to this Order, in the manner shown
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ROUTE OF THE NEW TRUNK ROAD

The route of the new trunk road is a route to the south of the

City of Canterbury in the County of Kent about 6.75 kilometres

in length starting at a point on the Upper Harbledown By-Pass,

at present under construction, 440 metres southeast of the
southernmost point of Plough Lane at Upper Harbledown village

and then proceeding southeastwards to cross the London-Dover

and Ashford—Margate railway lines southwest of Whitehall Farm,

the River Great Stour, and then the'A28 Thanington Road southwest
of its junction with Cockering Road, and to pass just south of the
junction of Merton Lane and Nackington Road Where it turns eastwards
and terminates 530 metres southeast of Milestone Farm at the point
where it joins the western end of the Bridge By-Pass, at present under
construction.

 

NOTE: 1 kilometre = 0.621 miles approximately

1 metre a 1.094 yards approximately

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