Trunk Road T8 (Toome Bypass) Order (Northern Ireland) 2000

Articles 2, 3 and 4

SCHEDULE 1

Part IThe New Route

Approximately 3930 metres of new road in the townlands of The Creagh (Etre and Otre), County of Londonderry and Brecart (Main Portion) and Drumderg, County of Antrim from a point on the existing Trunk Road T8 approximately 160 metres east of its junction with U5106 Blackpark Road extending in a generally south-easterly direction to a point approximately 380 metres east of its junction with C52 Staffordstown Road including three new roundabouts more particularly delineated and coloured red on the map.

Part IILength of Road which will cease to be Trunk Road

Approximately 2130 metres of the present Trunk Road T8 in the townlands of The Creagh (Etre and Otre), County of Londonderry and Toome and Drumderg, County of Antrim from a point approximately 585 metres west of its junction with B18 Creagh Road extending in a generally south-easterly direction to a point approximately 150 metres east of its junction with C52 Staffordstown Road more particularly delineated and edged brown on the map.

Part IIIRoad to be Abandoned

Part of the present Trunk Road T8:

(a)in the townland of The Creagh (Etre and Otre), County of Londonderry, extending in a generally westerly direction for a length of approximately 230 metres from a point approximately 585 metres west of its junction with B18 Creagh Road more particularly delineated coloured yellow and marked A1 on the map; and

(b)in the townland of Drumderg, County of Antrim, extending in a generally easterly direction for a length of approximately 130 metres from a point approximately 150 metres east of its junction with C52 Staffordstown Road more particularly delineated coloured yellow and marked A2 on the map.

Part IVRoad to be Stopped-Up to Vehicular Traffic

U1006 Gloverstown Road in the townlands of Toome and Drumderg at the junction which will exist between it and the new route more particularly delineated coloured purple and marked J1 on the map.

Part VRoad to be Stopped-Up to Road Traffic

B18 Roguery Road in the townland of Brecart (Main Portion);

(a)at lines approximately 30 metres south-west of its junction with U1005 Brecart Road and at the junction which will exist between it and the new route on the northern side more particularly delineated coloured green and marked J2 and J3 respectively on the map; and

(b)at the junction which will exist between it and the new route on the southern side and at a line approximately 200 metres south-west of that junction more particularly delineated coloured green and marked J4 and J5 respectively on the map.

Article 5

SCHEDULE 2Toome Bypass Bridge

Position

The centre line of the bridge shall extend from a point on the west bank of the River Bann approximately 550 metres north of the existing road bridge (Ordnance Survey map co-ordinates 299111 and 391332) to a point on the east bank approximately 550 metres north of the existing road bridge (Ordnance Survey map co-ordinates 299202 and 391306) in the townlands of The Creagh (Etre and Otre), County of Londonderry and Brecart (Main Portion), County of Antrim more particularly delineated and coloured red on the map.

Minimum Dimensions

Minimum span – 90 metres clear between the abutments.

Minimum headway – 3.5 metres above mean river level of 13.5 metres (above ordnance datum) Belfast Mean Sea Level over the full width of the river.

Minimum waterway – 70 metres.