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(This note is not part of the Order)

This Order authorises improvements to the existing A5 Trunk Road and the construction of new lengths of trunk road and slip roads, to provide a dual carriageway between the existing A5 Trunk Road north of Dunstable and the M1 Motorway to the south of Chalton.

The route of the main new road is about 5.2 kilometres in length, from a point on the plan marked A on the A5 Trunk Road, about 400 metres northwest of the centreline of its junction with Thorn Road at Houghton Regis in the County of Bedfordshire, easterly to a point on the plan marked B, about 250 metres southeast of the centreline of Sundon Road Railway Bridge at Chalton in the County of Bedfordshire.

The routes of the slip roads are as follows:

(1)

Junction with existing A5(T) at Houghton Regis

  • A route from the south east bound carriageway of the existing A5(T) to the north east bound carriageway of the main new road which the Secretary of State proposes to construct at Houghton Regis (the slip road along this route being given the number 1 on the plan).