“Guidance on Road Classification and the
Primary Route Network”, DfT, March 2012, sets out that local
authorities may now make road classifications (other than on the
Secretary of State’s road network) under the powers conferred
on the Secretary of State by section 12 of the Highways Act
1980.
A planning application for the scheme is submitted for
determination. A DfT decision regarding funding to build a
realigned section of the road at Kex Gill is awaited. The Council
(under delegated powers conferred by paragraph 4.4(d) of Schedule 4
of Part 3 of the County Council’s Constitution) hereby
provisionally classifies the realigned section of the proposed
road, and it shall be designated as the A59. See the attached
plan.