Statement of Case August 2011 - UK.COM

A46 Newark to Widmerpool Improvement -Supplementary Orders
Statement of Case August 2011
11 Conclusion
11.1 The Secretary of State for Transport and the Secretary of State for Communities
and Local Government announced the decision, published on 19 December 2008,
to make the orders needed for the Scheme following acceptance of the Inquiry
Inspector’s recommendations. The Inspector proposed that a number of
modifications and designs be considered. This resulted in the need for the
Supplementary Orders and these were published on 24 April 2009 with a six week
comment period. The Secretary of State for Transport and the Secretary of State
for Communities and Local Government announced their decision, published on 15
July 2010, to make those Supplementary Orders following acceptance of the Inquiry
Inspector’s recommendations.
11.2 The Inspectors’ Report and Secretaries of States’ decision letters are available at
the following websites together with the 2007 and 2010 inquiry documents:
http://www.persona.uk.com/A46newarkreopened/inquirydocuments.htm;
http://www.persona.uk.com/A46newarkreopened/supp-core-docs.htm
11.3 The Inspectors, in preparing their Report and conclusions, had regard to all
representations and evidence and all Inquiry documents to reach fair and balanced
judgements in their Reports to the Secretaries of State. They made formal
accompanied site inspections on various separate occasions and several
unaccompanied inspections.
11.4 The Secretaries of State, in turn, in reaching their decisions on the published
Orders and Supplementary Orders, considered both Inspectors’ reports in full,
together with their conclusions and recommendations. They also had available to
them all Inquiry documents listed in the Inspectors’ Reports to enable them to make
fair and balanced decisions.
11.5 The Agency’s further Supplementary and additional Detrunking Orders are
necessary to implement minor modifications to the Scheme. There has been no
new evidence to change the Agency’s position and it remains of the view that these
draft Supplementary Orders and Detrunking Order should therefore be made.
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