Works Within Road Reserve

This permit is required if works are being undertaken within our road reserves such as:  

• Stormwater Drainage and Pit Installations.
• Vehicle Crossing Construction and Modification.
• Footpath and Kerbing Replacement.
• Water Supply and Sewer Connections.
• Road Works.

1. Complete the application form including the proposed start and finish dates.
2. Payment can be made at any of our Customer Service Centres after the application has been submitted or if you tick the 'On Line' box, an invoice will be emailed which can be paid via EFT, BPay, or using your credit card via phone or the Glenelg Shire Council website.
3. A copy of the contractor’s current Certificate of Currency including Public Liability Insurance for up to $10 million.
4. A plan of the proposed location and works including a reference to any IDM Standard Drawing being used. Council's adopted Infrastructure Design Manual provides information in Clause 6, on how plans should be prepared. For the IDM Standard Drawings, click on the 'Download the IDM' button and click on the IDM Standard Drawings button.

For simple works, engineers may accept a neat ‘to scale’ plan (click here(PDF, 556KB) for examples) with all key information including:

• Offset measurements to reference the location of works.
• All dimensions of work.
• Any vegetation clearing and or in situ earth / table drain works.
• Where possible, a reference to the IDM standard drawings to be used.

Council reserves the right to ask for the full IDM section 6 requirements if the extent of works is unclear.

Public Liability

Public Liability insurance ensures that the public are safe and liability for any accidents is covered by the person undertaking these construction works on your behalf. A minimum of $10 million worth of pubic liability cover is required.

Applicants are advised that proof of cover in the form of a Certificate of Currency is necessary before the application can be filled out on your behalf. We keep a Public Liability Register for this purpose to make things easier for repeat applicants. Each year a new Certificate of Currency must be supplied before any new applications can be lodged.

Where the works only involve the removal of vegetation, Glenelg Shire Council currently waives the Works Within Road Reserve application fees.

As part of the Planning Permit process, your application will be referred to any relevant authorities for consent, including VicRoads (currently know as the Department of Transport and Planning). They will communicate directly back to our Planning Unit with consent details and a standard drawing applicable to the property if required. As a guide, a culvert with drivable end walls are the minimum required for access.

Within urban areas, the Department of Transport and Planning is the Coordinating Authority and Council is the Responsible Authority for arterial roads. In these instances Council manage the nature strip, footpath and kerb & channelling between the arterial road and your property. On receipt of your Planning Permit, you will need to apply for Works Within Road Reserve consent as detailed above. As Planning Permit fees are required, in order to prevent the payment of fee upon fee, you can tick the ‘waiver’ request box in your Works Within Road Reserve application form.

Standard Drawings are also available through the IDM download webpage.
These include:

• SD 235 - Retrofit Residential Vehicle Crossing.
• SD 240 - New Residential Single Vehicle Crossing Detail.
• SD 245 - New Residential Shared / Double Vehicle Crossing Detail.
• SD 250 - New Industrial Vehicle Crossing Detail.
• SD 255 - Typical Swale Drain Vehicle Crossing (Rural Entrance).
• SD 260 - Typical Swale Drain Vehicle Crossing (Fringe Urban Residential Entrance).
• SD 265 - Typical B Double Vehicle Crossing (Rural Entrance).
• SD 310 - Trenching Backfill.