Qgpartment of the Environment

 

HIGHWAYS ACTS 1959 TO 1971

 

THE LONDON - CANTERBURY - DOVER TRUNK ROAD (CANTERBURY BY¥PASS) ORDER 197

TH LODON - CANTERBURY - DOVER TRUNK ROAD (CANTERBURY BYFPTSS SLIP ROADS)
ORDER 197

(THE LONDON - CANTERBURY - DOVER TRUNK ROAD (HARBLEDOWN-BRIDGE DE-TRUNKING)
ORDER 197

THE LONON - CANTERBURY - DOVER TRUNK ROAD (CANTERBURY BYLPASS SIDE
» ROADS) ORDER 197

THE SECRETRRI OF STATE FOR THE ENVIRONMENT hereby gives notice that he
proposes to make the following Orders :-

1. An Order under sections 7 and 20 of the Highways Act 1959 providing :-

(a) that a road about 6.75kh (4.2ndles) in length which he proposes
to construct to the south of the City of Canterbury from a point
on the Upper Harbledown By—Pass to the western end of the Bridge
By-Pass in the County of Kent shall become a trunk road as from
the date when the Order comes into operation; and

(b) for the construction as part of the new trunk road a bridge over
the navigable waters of the River Great Stour.

2. Ln Order under section 7 of the Highways Act 1959 providing that roads
which he proposes to construct to connect:-

* (a) two sections of the Upper Harbledown By-Fess, south of Upper
Harbledown village, where the new trunk road meets the said
highway;

(b) the new trunk road with other highways at Thanington and Bridge,
and

(C) the Bridge By-Ease with the London - Canterbury - Dover Trunk
V Road, and two sections of the London - Canterbury — Dover
Trunk Road where the new trunk road meets these highways
northwest of Bridge village;

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

3. An Order under section 7 of the Highways Act 1959, the effect of which is
to provide that lengths of the London - Canterbury — Dover Trunk Road to be
superseded by the new trunk road to be provided in pursuance of the London -
Canterbury - Dover Trunk Road (Canterbury By-Pass) Order 197 shall cease to
be trunk road as from the date on which notice is given by him to the County
Council of Kent (who will become the highway authority responsible for those
lengths) that the said new trunk road is open for through traffic.

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4. in Order under section 9 of the Highways Act 1959 which will:-
(a) authorise him —

(i) to improve, raise, lower or otherwise alter highways,
(ii) to stop up highways,
(iii) to construct new highways,
(iv) to stop up private means of access to premises, and
(v) to provide new means of access to premises,

all on or in the vicinity of the above mentioned new trunk road,
and

(b) provide for the transfer of each of the said new highways to the
County Council of Kent as from the date on which he notifies that
authority that the new highway has been completed and is open
for through traffic.

COPIES of the draft Orders and of the relevant plans may be insptcted
free of charge at all reasonable hours from 18 June 1976 to 17 September 1976
at the Department of the Environment, Room P2/O38, 2 Marsham Street,
Iondon SW1 and at the offices of the South Eastern Road Construction Unit,
Federated House, London Road, Dorking, Surrey, RH4 lSZ; the Kent County Council,
County Hall, Maidstone, Kent; the Canterbury City Council, Dane John, Canterbury,
Kent and the Canterbury Public Library, Beaney Institute, High Street,
Canterbury, Kent .

ANY PERSON may not later than 17 September 1976 object to the making of
the Orders, by notice to the Secretary of State at his address at the South
Eastern Road Construction Unit quoting the title of the Order or Orders and
stating the grounds of objection.

V. R. F. DEWAR
Controller of édministration
South Eastern Road Construction Unit
11June 1976 Department of the Environment