HIGHWAYS ACT 1980

The Birmingham Northern Relief Road

The A5 Trunk Road (Churchbridge Improvement) Order 1998

The A5 Trunk Road (Churchbridge Improvement) (Detrunking) Order 1998

The Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions hereby gives notice that he has made the following Orders:   An Order under sections 10 and 41 of the Highways Act 1980, entitled “The A5 Trunk Road (Churchbridge Improvement) Order 1998”, which provides that the road which he proposes to construct along the following route shall become a trunk road from the date when the Order comes into force:   a route (“the main route”) about 470 metres long from a point on the A5 Trunk Road about 250 metres south-east from the centre of its eastern junction with the A34 Trunk Road to a point on the western junction of the A5 and A34 Trunk Roads.   An Order under sections 10 and 12 of the Highways Act 1980, entitled “The A5 Trunk Road (Churchbridge Improvement) (Detrunking) Order 1998”, which provides that a length of the A5 Trunk Road to be superseded by the new trunk road on the main route shall cease to be a trunk road and shall be classified as an unclassified road, from the date on which the Secretary of State notifies the Staffordshire County Council (who will become the highway authority responsible for that length) that the new trunk road is open for traffic.   Copies of each Order and the plans referred to in it have been deposited at the Highways Agency, Project Services, Room 12/27 St. Christopher House, Southward Street, London SE1 0TE; the Highways Agency, Broadway, Broad Street, Birmingham B15 1BL; and at Birmingham City Council, Council House, Victoria Square, Birmingham; Cannock Chase District Council, The Council House, Beecroft Road, Cannock, Staffordshire; Lichfield District Council, Council Offices, Frog Lane, Lichfield, Staffordshire; Walsall Metropolitan Borough Council, Civic Centre, Darwall Street, Walsall, West Midlands; North Warwickshire Borough Council, Council House, South Street, Atherstone, Warwickshire; South Staffordshire District Council, Council Offices; Wolverhampton Road, Codsall, Wolverhampton, West Midlands; Norton Canes Library, Burntwood Road, Norton Canes, Cannock; Shenstone Library, Main Street, Shenstone, Walsall; Burntood and Chase Terrace Library, Sankeys Corner, Burntwood, Lichfield; Cheslyn Hay Library, High Street, Cheslyn Hay, Walsall; Water Orton Library, Mickle Meadow, Coleshill Road, Water Orton, Birmingham; Brownhills Library Bricklin Street, Brownhills, Walsall; Coleshill Library, 141 High Street, Coleshill, Birmingham; Sutton Coldfield Library, Lower Parade, Sutton Coldfield; and Reddicap Heath Post Office, 53 Reddicap Heath Road, Sutton Coldfield, where they are open to inspection, free of charge, at all reasonable hours from 12th February 1998 to 3rd April 1998.   Copies of each Order can be purchased through booksellers or direct from government bookshops (HMSO). The A5 Trunk Road (Churchbridge Improvement) Order 1998, is numbered S.I. 1998/122 and is priced 65p, and the A5 Trunk Road (Churchbridge Improvement) (Detrunking) Order 1998, is numbered S.I. 1998/126 and is priced 65p.   Any person aggrieved by these Orders who desires to question their validity, or the validity of any provision in them on the grounds that it is not within the powers of the Highways Act 1980, or any requirement of that Act or of regulations made under that Act has not been complied with in relation to the Order, may, apply to the High Court within 6 weeks from the date of first publication of this notice. On such an application, the Court may suspend or quash the Order or any provision in it. G. P. Rainbow, Highways Agency 4th February 1998.