Work category 331: Property purchase – state highways

Introduction

This work category A type of activity – not confined to a particular activity class, e.g. new roads (work category 323) appears in:

* activity class 12 – local road improvements
* activity class 13 – state highways improvements provides for the purchase of land by the Transport Agency for new and improved roading infrastructure for state highways.

Principles and conditions, where relevant, may be applied to other activity classes

The principles and conditions of property purchase for state highways set out below may be applied to other activities classes, e.g. public transport improvements, walking and cycling improvements, where the Transport Agency has agreed that it will assist the funding for property purchased for land transport purposes prior to it approving funding for the construction/implementation of a project.

Property purchase for other activity classes will be funded under the same work category A type of activity – not confined to a particular activity class, e.g. new roads (work category 323) appears in:

* activity class 12 – local road improvements
* activity class 13 – state highways improvements that will be applied to construction/ implementation of the project, e.g. work category 531 for public transport infrastructure projects.

Examples of qualifying activities

Examples of qualifying activities include, but may not be limited to:

• valuation
• legal surveys
• acquisitions, and
• compensation.

Other potential activities not shown above should be discussed with the Transport Agency for eligibility.

Conditions

Conditions include:

• funding assistance will be based on the purchase price
• all costs must be identified by project and available for audit
• a land plan must be available for audit purposes and must indicate the area of land to be purchased and the part that is to be converted to road reserve A legally described area within which facilities such as roads, footpaths That portion of the road reserve set aside for the use of pedestrians only. and associated features may be constructed and maintained for public travel. , with each individual property to be identified on the plan, and
• total gross property purchase costs and the estimated value from disposal of surplus land are to be entered and updated phase in Transport Investment Online as a property phase.

Funding assistance rate

The usual funding assistance rate is:

• 100% of the Transport Agency's state highway costs.