Highways Agency

A428 Caxton Common to Hardwick Improvement

3.0 Publication of Draft Orders

Publication

3.1 On 18 February 2003 the Secretary of State for Transport published the draft Orders listed below, under the Highways Act 1980 and the Acquisition of Land Act 1981:

• The A428 Trunk Road (Caxton Gibbet to Cambourne Improvement) Order 20.
• The A428 Trunk Road (Caxton Gibbet to Cambourne Improvement Detrunking) Order 20.
• The A428 Trunk Road (Caxton Gibbet to Cambourne Improvement Side Roads) Order 20.
• The A428 Trunk Road (Caxton Gibbet to Cambourne Improvement) Compulsory Purchase Order 20.
• The A428 Trunk Road (Cambourne to Hardwick Improvement and Slip Roads) Order 20.
• The A428 Trunk Road (Cambourne to Hardwick Improvement Detrunking) Order 20.
• The A428 Trunk Road (Cambourne to Hardwick Improvement Side Roads) Order 20.
• The A428 Trunk Road (Cambourne to Hardwick Improvement) Compulsory Purchase Order 20.
• The A428 Trunk Road (Cambourne to Hardwick Improvement) (Prohibition of Use of Gaps in the Central Reservation) Order 20.

The objection period for the published draft orders ended on 31 March 2003.

3.2 Public exhibitions displaying the proposals for the Scheme and the draft Orders were held in Dry Drayton Village Hall on Friday 7 March 2003 and in Bourn Village Hall on Saturday 8 March 2003.

3.3 The Draft Line and Slip Roads Orders

THE A428 TRUNK ROAD (CAXTON GIBBET TO CAMBOURNE IMPROVEMENT) ORDER 20.. (Deposit Document No. 2)

This is a draft Order under Sections 10 and 41 of the Highways Act 1980, which will provide that roads, which the Secretary of State proposes to construct along the following routes, shall become trunk roads from the date when the Order comes into force. The routes comprise the main route, about 990 metres in length, from the Caxton Gibbet Roundabout to a point 160 metres east of the stopped up Elsworth Road at Elsworth and Caxton in the District of South Cambridgeshire.

THE A428 TRUNK ROAD (CAMBOURNE TO HARDWICK IMPROVEMENT AND SLIP ROADS) ORDER 20.. (Deposit Document No. 3)

This is a draft Order under Sections 10 and 41 of the Highways Act 1980, which will provide that roads, which the Secretary of State proposes to construct along the following routes, shall become trunk roads from the date when the Order comes into force. The routes comprise the main route, about 4.7 kilometres in length, from a point on the A428 Trunk Road 675 metres west of the road to Knapwell to a point on the A428 Trunk Road 710 metres east of Hardwick roundabout. In addition, it contains two routes to connect the eastbound carriageway of the main new road with a roundabout which the Secretary of State proposes to construct as part of the A428 Hardwick Junction at Hardwick and two routes to connect the westbound carriageway of the main new road with a roundabout which the Secretary of State proposes to construct as part of the A428 Hardwick Junction at Hardwick.

3.4 The Draft Detrunking Orders

THE A428 TRUNK ROAD (CAXTON GIBBET TO CAMBOURNE IMPROVEMENT) (DETRUNKING) ORDER 20.. (Deposit Document No. 4)

This is a draft Order under Sections 10 and 12 of the Highways Act 1980 which will provide that a length of the A428 Trunk Road shall cease to be a trunk road, and shall be re-classified as a classified road, as from the date on which the Secretary of State notifies the Cambridgeshire County Council (which will become the highway authority responsible for that length) that the new trunk road on the main route is open for traffic.

THE A428 TRUNK ROAD (CAMBOURNE TO HARDWICK IMPROVEMENT) (DETRUNKING) ORDER 20.. (Deposit Document No. 5)

This is a draft Order under Sections 10 and 12 of the Highways Act 1980 which will provide that a length of the A428 Trunk Road shall cease to be a trunk road, and shall be re-classified as a classified road, as from the date on which the Secretary of State notifies the Cambridgeshire County Council (which will become the highway authority responsible for that length) that the new trunk road on the main route is open for traffic.

3.5 The Draft Side Road Orders

THE A428 TRUNK ROAD (CAXTON GIBBET TO CAMBOURNE IMPROVEMENT) SIDE ROADS ORDER 20.. (Deposit Document No. 6)

This is a draft Order under Sections 12, 14 and 125 of the Highways Act 1980, in relation to the A428 Trunk Road and the new Trunk Roads to be constructed by the Secretary of State at Caxton, which would authorise him to provide new highways and new means of access and alterations to existing highways, footpaths and private means of access to premises as would be necessary because of the construction of the Scheme. Where the new highway did not form part of the new road on the main route, the Order would provide for the transfer of each new highway to the Cambridgeshire County Council as highway authority as from the date on which the Secretary of State notifies the Council that the highway has been completed and is open for traffic.

THE A428 TRUNK ROAD (CAMBOURNE TO HARDWICK IMPROVEMENT) SIDE ROADS ORDER 20.. (Deposit Document No. 7)

This is a draft Order under Sections 12, 14 and 125 of the Highways Act 1980, in relation to the A428 Trunk Road and the new Trunk Roads to be constructed by the Secretary of State at Cambourne, which would authorise him to provide new highways and new means of access and alterations to existing highways, footpaths and private means of access to premises as would be necessary because of the construction of the Scheme. Where the new highway did not form part of the new road on the main route, the Order would provide for the transfer of each new highway to the Cambridgeshire County Council as highway authority as from the date on which the Secretary of State notifies the Council that the highway has been completed and is open for traffic.

3.6 The Draft Compulsory Purchase Orders

THE A428 TRUNK ROAD (CAXTON GIBBET TO CAMBOURNE IMPROVEMENT) COMPULSORY PURCHASE ORDER 20.. (Deposit Document No. 8)

This is a draft Order under powers conferred by Sections 239, 240 and 246 of the Highways Act 1980, as extended and supplemented by section 250 of that Act and under section 2 of the Acquisition of Land Act 1981, and all other enabling powers which would authorise the Secretary of State to purchase compulsory land rights for: the construction of a new trunk road at Caxton in pursuance of the A428 Trunk Road (Caxton Gibbet to Cambourne Improvement) Order 20.. ; the construction and improvement of highways and the provision of new means of access to premises at Caxton in pursuance of the A428 Trunk Road (Caxton Gibbet to Cambourne Improvement) Side Roads Order 20.. ; and land and rights for the purpose of mitigating any adverse effect which the existence or use of the trunk road and other highways will have on the surroundings thereof.

THE A428 TRUNK ROAD (CAMBOURNE TO HARDWICK IMPROVEMENT) COMPULSORY PURCHASE ORDER 20.. (Deposit Document No. 9)

This is a draft Order under powers conferred by Sections 239, 240 and 246 of the Highways Act 1980, as extended and supplemented by section 250 of that Act and under section 2 of the Acquisition of Land Act 1981, and all other enabling powers which would authorise the Secretary of State to purchase compulsory land rights for: the construction of a new trunk road at Cambourne in pursuance of the A428 Trunk Road (Cambourne to Hardwick Improvement) Order 20.. ; the construction and improvement of highways and the provision of new means of access to premises at Cambourne in pursuance of the A428 Trunk Road (Cambourne to Hardwick Improvement) Side Roads Order 20.. ; and land and rights for the purpose of mitigating any adverse effect which the existence or use of the trunk road and other highways will have on the surroundings thereof.

3.7 The Draft Prohibition of Use of Gaps in the Central Reservation Order

THE A428 TRUNK ROAD (CAMBOURNE TO HARDWICK IMPROVEMENT) (PROHIBITION OF USE OF GAP IN CENTRAL RESERVATION) 20.. (Deposit Document No. 10)

This is a draft Order under Sections 1(1), 2(1) and 2(2) of the Road Traffic Regulation Act 1984, in relation to the A428 Trunk Road and the new Trunk Roads to be constructed by the Secretary of State at Hardwick, which would authorise him to prevent any vehicle proceeding in either direction of the carriageways of the trunk road to enter or proceed through the gap in the central reservation opposite the access to Park Farm approximately 750 metres west of the junction of the A1303 Cambridge Road with the trunk road.

3.8 Purpose of the Inquiries

The purpose of these Public Local Inquiries is to enable the Secretary of State to inform himself more fully of the nature and weight of the objections and representations to the draft Orders. The Secretary of State will consider all objections, representations and counter objections to the draft Orders together with the Inspector's findings and recommendations on the subject matter of the Inquiries before deciding whether or not the draft Orders should be made and, if made, with or without modifications.