Road Permits
If you're planning on carrying out works or activities on Council roads and footpaths, including constructing a driveway, you must seek Council approval before starting by obtaining a section 138 certificate.
If you are looking to carry out any of the following construction works, you must apply for Section 138 Works approval:
- Construct or reconstruct a driveway
- Remove a redundant driveway
- Connect to a public utility such as the water supply (i.e. road opening)
- Repair or reconstruct kerb and gutter within property frontage
- Repair or reconstruct footpath within property frontage
- Connection of proposed public roads to existing roads
- Footways paving, private utilities, landscape works, ramps, pipes, connecting to roads
- Permanent balconies and awnings, overhead crossings, encroachments by car parking spaces, posts
- Temporary anchors
- Connect stormwater to the kerb and gutter (i.e. road opening)
- Installation or construction of private utility to a public utility, etc.
- Mine blasting
Refer to Council Engineering Construction Specifications for Council requirements.
Where works are required within a Classified Road, the applicant must obtain concurrence from Roads and Maritime (RMS). Evidence of RMS concurrence shall be included in your application to Council for Section 138 approval.
Roadside Grazing
While Council does not charge for a section 138 application, we do charge a permit fees as per our fees and charges schedule.
In order to make an application, Council requires the following in writing:
- Location and address of the cattle property
- Sections of roads affected
- Duration of use and near town times of the day is also required
- Number of head
Typical approval requires the following:
- Insurance that Indemnify Council against any liability claims arising from such approval
- Consent for this agreement is in accordance with the Rules and Conditions set out by the Local Lands Services
- The agreement can NOT be assigned or transferred to another person or company
- This consent is only valid when issued in conjunction with a Stock Grazing Permit issued by the Local Lands Services
This approval process is in accordance with Temporary Stock Grazing Permit from the Local Lands Services under the Rural Lands Protection Act, 1989, Part 8 Division 5, Section 101, in respect of public road(s) vested in Council.
Traffic Management
Any event that will affect the road network must have a Traffic Management Plan (TMP) included with event application.
A TMP is a document that outlines all essential traffic and transport management matters associated with events on the road and/or road related area. This includes risk assessment, traffic demand and accommodation, traffic routing and control and provision for vulnerable road users and special vehicles such as buses and over-dimensional vehicles.
The TMP is to be developed in accordance with the Austroads Guide to Temporary Traffic Management. A Traffic Guidance Scheme (TGS), or a number of TGS’s, are often included within a TMP. A TGS is a document that outlines an arrangement of temporary traffic control devices to warn traffic and guide it around, through or past a worksite or temporary hazard.
If a Traffic Guidance Scheme (TGS) is required for the event, it must be designed and implemented by a person who is trained and accredited, through an approved training course, by a registered training organisation in accordance with part 4.9 of the Work Health and Safety Regulation 2017. This may be a traffic management company, may incur a cost, and is to be in accordance with the Austroads Guide to Temporary Traffic Management and Australian Standards 1742.3.
Council’s Local Traffic Committee (LTC) will assess the TMP to ensure the traffic management requirements have been met and therefore the regulation of traffic is authorised. The regulation of traffic must be organised under the Roads Act 1993 and the use of traffic control devices implemented under the Road Transport Act 2013, and/or Austroads Guide to Temporary Traffic Management.
Approval of the TMP is for the regulation of traffic only and the endorsement of the concept proposed for managing the traffic and transport network.
If a temporary road closure is required, this will incur an administration fee to cover the cost of advertising the closure in local newspapers and may attract inspection fees for the day(s) of the event. Please refer to Council’s Fees and Charges document for more details.
Please note to complete this application you will need to upload a copy of your TMP.
Further information relating to the management of traffic and transportation associated with special events can be obtained from the TfNSW document ‘Guide to Traffic and Transport Management for Special Events’.
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