NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the Welsh Ministers have made an Order under sections 12, 14, 125, 268 and 326 of the Highways Act 1980 to vary The Neath to Abergavenny Trunk Road (A465) (Abergavenny to Hirwaun Dualling and Slip Roads) and East of Abercynon to East of Dowlais Trunk Road (A4060) and Cardiff to Glan Conwy Trunk Road (A470) (Connecting Roads) (Dowlais Top to Hirwaun) (Side Roads) Order 2019, as varied by The Neath to Abergavenny Trunk Road (A465) (Abergavenny to Hirwaun Dualling and Slip Roads) and East of Abercynon to East of Dowlais Trunk Road (A4060) and Cardiff to Glan Conwy Trunk Road (A470) (Connecting Roads) (Dowlais Top to Hirwaun) (Side Roads) (Variation) Order 2020, as varied by The Neath to Abergavenny Trunk Road (A465) (Abergavenny to Hirwaun Dualling and Slip Roads) and East of Abercynon to East of Dowlais Trunk Road (A4060) and Cardiff to Glan Conwy Trunk Road (A470) (Connecting Roads) (Dowlais Top to Hirwaun) (Side Roads) (Variation) (No.3) Order 2022, as varied by The Neath to Abergavenny Trunk Road (A465) (Abergavenny to Hirwaun Dualling and Slip Roads) and East of Abercynon to East of Dowlais Trunk Road (A4060) and Cardiff to Glan Conwy Trunk Road (A470) (Connecting Roads) (Dowlais Top to Hirwaun) (Side Roads) (Variation) (No.4) Order 2024.

THE VARIATION (NO.4) ORDER 2024 will authorise the Welsh Ministers to—

(a) carry out the improvement of highways;

(b) stop up highways or areas of highway;

(c) construct new highways;

(d) stop up private means of access to premises;

(e) provide new means of access to premises;

(f) close highways temporarily and

(g) provide temporary highways, and

(h) provide for the transfer of the new highways to Merthyr Tydfil County Borough Council, Rhondda Cynon Taf County Borough Council and Caerphilly County Borough Council as from the date the Welsh Ministers notify those Councils that they have been completed and are open for through traffic.

THE VARIATION (No.4) ORDER 2024 would substitute the Site Plan numbered 9B to the plan portfolio HA14/1 WG28 to the Order with the revised Site Plan numbered 9C in the plan portfolio numbered HA14/1 WG30 to the Variation Order and make minor amendments to the articles and schedules of the Order.

The purpose of the Variation (No.4) Order 2024 is to provide authorisation—

(i) to amend the stopping up requirement for Bridleway BR111/38 and CB113/999 to allow the existing route between New Church Street and its southern crossing point of the A465 trunk road to remain open;

(ii) to remove the hairpin ramp which connects both Lower Vaynor Road and the new A465 trunk road shared use path at Taf Fechan, to the Taff Trail crossing of the A465 trunk road and to replace it with simple curved ramp performing the same function at the same location.

COPIES of the draft Variation Order and its relevant plans and explanatory statement, together with the The Neath to Abergavenny Trunk Road (A465) (Abergavenny to Hirwaun Dualling and Slip Roads) and East of Abercynon to East of Dowlais Trunk Road (A4060) and Cardiff to Glan Conwy Trunk Road (A470) (Connecting Roads) (Dowlais Top to Hirwaun) (Side Roads) Order 2019, as varied by The Neath to Abergavenny Trunk Road (A465) (Abergavenny to Hirwaun Dualling and Slip Roads) and East of Abercynon to East of Dowlais Trunk Road (A4060) and Cardiff to Glan Conwy Trunk Road (A470) (Connecting Roads) (Dowlais Top to Hirwaun) (Side Roads) (Variation) Order 2020, as varied by The Neath to Abergavenny Trunk Road (A465) (Abergavenny to Hirwaun Dualling and Slip Roads) and East of Abercynon to East of Dowlais Trunk Road (A4060) and Cardiff to Glan Conwy Trunk Road (A470) (Connecting Roads) (Dowlais Top to Hirwaun) (Side Roads) (Variation) (No.3) Order 2022, as varied by The Neath to Abergavenny Trunk Road (A465) (Abergavenny to Hirwaun Dualling and Slip Roads) and East of Abercynon to East of Dowlais Trunk Road (A4060) and Cardiff to Glan Conwy Trunk Road (A470) (Connecting Roads) (Dowlais Top to Hirwaun) (Side Roads) (Variation) (No.4) Order 2024 and the plans referred to in them, may be inspected free of charge at reasonable hours from 18 July 2024 to 29 August 2024 at the following deposit location:

• PLO Office, Future Valleys Construction, Baverstock, Dynevor Arms, Llwydcoed, Aberdare CF44 0ND.

Appointments should be made via the Public Liaison Officer, Martin Gallimore, using the following contact information: mobile phone, 07762 451850, and email A465enquiries@futurevalleysconstruction.com

If any person aggrieved by this Order desires to question its validity, or of any of the provisions contained in it, on the ground that:

a. it is not within the powers of the Highways Act 1980; or

b. that any requirement of the Act or of regulations made under it has not been complied with,

that person may, within 6 weeks of them becoming operative make an application for the purpose to the High Court.

A copy of the Variation (No.4) Order 2024 together with the Side Roads Order 2019, Variation Order 2020, Variation Order 2021 and all of the made Orders for the published scheme and this Notice and Plans can be viewed at https://gov.wales/a465-section-5-and-6-dowlais-top-hirwaun.

A copy of this Notice in larger print can be obtained from Orders Branch, Transport, Welsh Government, Cathays Park, Cardiff CF10 3NQ.

JAMES SADDLER

Transport

Welsh Government