North Hykeham Relief Road - Department For Transport

Department for Transport

HIGHWAYS ACT 1980
THE LINCOLNSHIRE COUNTY COUNCIL (A1461
NORTH HYKEHAM RELIEF ROAD) (CLASSIFIED ROAD) (SIDE ROADS) ORDER 2024

The Secretary of State for Transport hereby gives notice that on 30 October 2025 she has confirmed the above Order which was made by Lincolnshire County Council under sections 14 and 125 of the Highways Act 1980 and which, as confirmed, authorises the Council to –

(a) improve highways (including raising, lowering or otherwise altering),

(b) stop up highways,

(c) construct new highways,

(d) stop up private means of access to premises,

(e) provide new means of access to the said premises.

all on or in the vicinity of the route of the classified road known as A1461 North Hykeham Relief Road which the Council are proposing to construct from the A46 Hykeham Roundabout in an easterly direction for a distance of 8.1km to the A15 Sleaford Road Roundabout within the North Kesteven District in the County of Lincolnshire.

A copy of the order and of the accompanying plans may be inspected at www.lincolnshire.gov.uk/nhrr and free of charge during normal opening hours at the offices of Lincolnshire County Council at County Offices, Newland, Lincoln, Lincolnshire LN1 1YS, and at the offices of North Kesteven District Council, District Council Offices, Kesteven Street, Sleaford, NG34 7EF (Monday – Wednesday 9:00 a.m. – 1:00 p.m. and 2:00 p.m. – 5:00 p.m. (appointments necessary outside those hours).

Any person aggrieved by or desiring to question the validity of any provision within the Order on the grounds that it is not within the powers of the above Act or that any requirement or regulation made has not been complied with, may, within 6 weeks of 20 November 2025, apply to the High Court for the suspension or quashing of the Order or of any provision included.

N Crass, Department for Transport