1. This Order may be cited as the A11 Trunk Road (Fiveways to Thetford Improvement and Slip Roads) Order 2011 and shall come into force on 30th March 2011

2. In this Order-

(1) all measurements of distance are measured along the route of the relevant highway; and

(2) (a) "the main new road" means the new highway which the Secretary of State proposes to construct along the route described in Schedule 1 to this Order;

(b)"the new trunk roads" means the main new road and the slip roads;

(c)"the plan" means the plan numbered HA 10/MP/071 marked "The A11 Trunk Road (Fiveways to Thetford Improvement and Slip Roads) Order 2011", signed by authority of the Secretary of State for Transport and deposited at Document Deposit Service, Communities and Local Government, Floor 13 (IMD), Ashdown House, St Leonards on Sea, Hastings, East Sussex TN37 7GA; and

(d)"the slip roads" means the new highways which the Secretary of State proposes to construct along the routes described in Schedule 2 to this Order and which connect the main new road with other highways or proposed highways at the places stated in that Schedule.

3. The main new road and the slip roads shall become trunk roads from the date when this Order comes into force.

4. The centre line of each of the trunk roads is indicated by a heavy black line on the plan.

5. The Secretary of State directs as respects any part of a highway which crosses the route of any of the new trunk roads that-

(a)where the highway is 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 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 traffic.

Article 2(2)(a)

SCHEDULE 1ROUTE OF THE MAIN NEW ROAD

The route of the new main road is about 2.7 miles (4.3km) in length, from a point A on the A11 Trunk Road 1,150 metres west of its junction with the centreline of the B1106 at Elveden in the County of Suffolk extending in a north easterly direction to a point B 1,430 metres east of its junction with the C633 at Elveden Gap in the County of Norfolk.

Article 2(2)(d)

SCHEDULE 2ROUTES OF THE SLIP ROADS

The routes of the slip roads are as follows:

(1) Junction with the B1106 at Elveden

(a)A route in two directions from the eastbound carriageway of the main new road to the new line of the B1106 at Elveden in the County of Suffolk (the slip road along this route being given the number 1 on the plan) for a distance of 173 metres, and

(b)A route in two directions from the westbound carriageway of the main new road to the new line of the B1106 at Elveden in the County of Suffolk (the slip road along this route being given the number 2 on the plan) for a distance of 236 metres; and

(2) Elveden Gap

• A route from the westbound carriageway of the A11 Trunk Road to a length of the A11 Trunk Road proposed to be detrunked by the Secretary of State and superseded by the new main road at Elveden Gap in the County of Norfolk (the slip road along this route being given the number 3 on the plan) for a distance of 165 metres.

EXPLANATORY NOTE

(This note is not part of the Regulations)

This Order provides that the new bypass of Elveden shall be a trunk road. It also provides two slip roads from this bypass to the B1106 junction and one slip road from this bypass onto the existing (old) A11 into Elveden. These slip roads shall also be trunk roads.