LGAT Submission – Road Management Legislation Review Discussion Paper
Published 14th December 2023
On behalf of Tasmanian councils, we have provided a submission on the Road Management Legislation Review Discussion Paper prepared by the Department of State Growth.
Based on an assessment of the feedback we received from councils, we've identified the following important issues for local road management:
- Resolution of the asset ownership and transfer problems created by section 11 of the Roads and Jetties Act 1935.
- Improve the standard and efficiency of third-party interference and works in the road reserve, particularly that of utilities and adjacent landowners.
- A process that assists in bringing unconstructed and unformalised roads up to an acceptable standard to allow them to be adopted by a road manager and formalised in a road authority’s asset register.
Our submission also provides the sector's views across the following areas:
- Subdivisions
- Funding
- Road manager definition
- Ambiguity of road management responsibility regarding bus stops and retaining walls
- Liability
- Service authorities and utilities in road reserves
- Land use planning
- Traffic control
- Cost recovery.