Notice: 1523956 (Issue: 60049)

Welsh Government

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

THE HIGHWAYS ACT 1980

THE CARDIFF TO Glan Conwy Trunk Road (A470) (MAES YR HELMAU TO CROSS FOXES IMPROVEMENT AND DE-TRUNKING) ORDER 2012

AND

THE CARDIFF TO GLAN CONWY TRUNK ROAD (A470) (MAES YR HELMAU TO CROSS FOXES IMPROVEMENT SIDE ROADS) ORDER 2012

Notice is hereby given that the Welsh Ministers have made the following Orders:

1.  an Order under Sections 10 and 12 of the Highways Act 1980 providing that:

(a)  a road approximately 0.64 kilometres in length commencing at a point on the existing trunk road approximately 130 metres south east of the southern corner of the property known as “The Lodge” and extending in a generally south easterly direction to a point on the existing trunk road approximately 397 metres south of the south western corner of the property known as “R Efail”; and

(b)  a road approximately 0.35 kilometres in length commencing at a point on the existing trunk road approximately 643 metres north of the northern corner of the property known as “Rhiwspardyn”; and extending in a generally southerly direction to a point on the existing trunk road approximately 353 metres north west of the north western corner of the property known as “Rhiwspardyn”,

shall be constructed between Maes yr Helmau and Cross Foxes in the County of Gwnyedd and become trunk roads as from the date when the Order comes into force; and

that that length of the Cardiff to Glan Conwy Trunk Road (A470) between Dolgellau and Dinas Mawddwy in the County of Gwynedd, commencing at a point on the existing trunk road approximately: 67 metres west of the south western corner of the property known as “R Efail” and extending in a generally south easterly direction for a distance of approximately 0.13 kilometres to a point on the existing trunk road approximately 14 metres south of its junction with the B4416 road to Brithdir, shall cease to be a trunk road and shall become a classified road as from the date on which notice is given by the Welsh Government to Gwynedd Council (who will become the highway authority for that length).

2.  an Order under Sections 12, 14, 125 and 268 of the Highways Act 1980 which will authorise them:

(a)  to carry out the improvement of highways;

(b)  to stop up highways or areas of highways;

(c)  to construct new highways;

(d)  to stop up private means of access to premises, and

(e)  to provide new means of access to premises.

all on, or in the vicinity of, the route of the above-mentioned new trunk road, aforesaid; and providing for the transfer of the new highways to Gwynedd Council as from the date the Welsh Government notifies the Council that they have been completed and are open for through traffic.

Copies of the Orders and accompanying plans may be inspected free of charge at all reasonable hours from 2 February 2012 until 15 March 2012 or within 6 weeks from the date of publication of this notice, whichever period expires later, at the following venues:

• Gwynedd Council, Meirionnydd Area Office, Cae Penarlậg, Dolgellau, Gwynedd LL40 2YB;

• The Welsh Government Roads and Projects Division, Sarn Mynach, Llandudno Junction, Conwy LL31 9RZ, and

• The Welsh Government, Orders Branch, Transport, Cathays Park; Cardiff CF10 3NQ.

Copies of the Order, the title of which is ‘The Cardiff to Glan Conwy Trunk Road (A470) (Maes yr Helmau to Cross Foxes Improvement and De-Trunking) Order 2012’ SI 2012 No. 157 (W.21) is published by TSO (The Stationery Office) and can be purchased online from www.tsoshop.co.uk or TSO @ Blackwell; www.tso.co.uk/contact/bookshops/agents/cardiff/and other Accredited Agents.

Copies of the Order, the title of which is ‘The Cardiff to Glan Conwy Trunk Road (A470) (Maes yr Helmau to Cross Foxes Improvement Side Roads) Order 2012’ can be obtained from the Welsh Government Orders Branch, Transport, Cathays Park, Cardiff CF10 3NQ.

Any person aggrieved by the making of either of the Orders and desiring to question the validity thereof, or of any provision contained therein, on the grounds that it is not within the powers of the Highways Act 1980 or on the grounds that any requirement of that Act or of regulations made thereunder has not been complied with in relation to the Orders may, within 6 weeks from 2 February 2012, or within 6 weeks from the date of publication of this Notice if such period shall expire later, apply to the High Court for the suspension or quashing of the Orders or of any provision contained therein.

A copy of the draft Line Order and Notice can be viewed at http://wales.gov.uk/?lang=en (Select ‘Legislation’, ‘Subordinate legislation’, ‘Local Statutory Instruments’, ‘Highways Act Line Orders’, ‘2012’).

A copy of the draft Side Roads Order and Notice can be viewed at http://wales.gov.uk/?lang=en (Select ‘Legislation’, ‘Subordinate legislation’, ‘Non-Statutory Instruments’, ‘Transport Wales’, ‘Highways Act Side Roads and Compulsory Purchase Orders’, ‘2012’).