Explanatory note

This Order authorises Transport for Greater Manchester (referred to in this Order as the undertaker) to construct and operate a transit system in the borough of Trafford, being an extension to the existing Manchester Metrolink system by way of a new route joining existing tramway routes from the existing Pomona Metrolink stop through Trafford Park and terminating at the Trafford Centre retail and leisure complex. For that purpose, the Order also authorises the compulsory purchase and temporary use of land, the diversion of existing rights of way, street works and ancillary works.

The Order also contains a number of ancillary and consequential provisions to provide for the construction, maintenance and operation of the transit system.

A copy of the works and land plans, the book of reference and the traffic regulation plans mentioned in this Order and certified in accordance with article 51 (certification of plans, etc.) of this Order, may be inspected free of charge during working hours at the offices of the undertaker at—

Transport for Greater Manchester, 2 Piccadilly Place, Manchester, M1 3BG; and

Trafford Metropolitan Borough Council, Sale Waterside, Sale, Manchester, M33 6FZ.