Explanatory note

This Order authorises the detrunking of a length of the existing A5 Trunk Road, between the lengths described below.

The length of the trunk road ceasing to be a trunk road is situated from a point about 400m northwest of the centreline of its junction with Thorn Road at Houghton Regis in the County of Bedfordshire marked A to a point marked B on the existing A5 Trunk Road, about 450 metres south east of the centreline of its junction with Chequers Hill at Flamstead in the County of Hertfordshire, a distance of about 14.08km, and is shown by broad black dashes on the plan in folio numbered HA 10/MP/108, marked “The A5 Trunk Road (A5-M1 Link Dunstable Northern Bypass) (Detrunking) Order 2014” signed by authority of the Secretary of State for Transport, and deposited at the Document Deposit Service, Communities and Local Government, Floor 13 (IMD), Ashdown House, St Leonards on Sea, Hastings, East Sussex TN37 7GA.