Builders and trades working on or beside a road

Where is the road work or lift?

Free checklist for a traffic management plan or traffic guidance scheme for street works or a crane lift: who must design it and what approvals you need.

  • Free to read
  • No sign-up until the draft
  • Hands off to the right door
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ePlan fills in

  • Street and road type
  • Nearby intersections
  • Council

How it works

Traffic management plan checklist, from one answer

  1. Enter the street and what will be closed.
  2. ePlan lists the approvals and card holders the job needs.
  3. Read the checklist free. Council wants a full CMP? Start a construction management plan.

What you get

Traffic management plan checklist and 1 more document

The check is free. The paperwork after it is drafted at the Council construction management plan door.

The first draft

Traffic management plan checklist (free)

  1. Road, footpath and roads authority
  2. What is closed and when
  3. Who designs the traffic guidance scheme
  4. Who sets it up and directs traffic
  5. Road consent (Roads Act s 138)
  6. Pedestrians and property access

Modeled on: SafeWork NSW traffic control work training card guidance

Next · 2

Council construction management plan

  1. Site establishment
  2. Work times
  3. Traffic
  4. Neighbours

From public data

What ePlan fills in, and from where

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classes of SafeWork NSW traffic control work card: traffic controller, implement traffic control plans, and prepare a work zone traffic management plan
Source: SafeWork NSW

Ready for the paperwork?

A council construction management plan: site set-up, work hours, trucks, hoarding, traffic and neighbours, drafted from your permit. Free to read.

Council construction management plan →

Questions

Traffic Management Plan and TGS: what people ask

Who can design a traffic guidance scheme in NSW?

Someone with a SafeWork NSW traffic control work training card for Prepare a Work Zone Traffic Management Plan (PWZ). It covers designing, varying or inspecting a work zone traffic management plan, and the course covers traffic guidance schemes.

Source: safework.nsw.gov.au

Do I need consent to work on the road?

In NSW, works or structures on a public road need consent from the roads authority under section 138 of the Roads Act 1993. Ask your council who the roads authority is for your street.

Source: legislation.nsw.gov.au

Is work beside a road high risk construction work?

Yes. The WHS Regulations list work in or next to a road or other traffic corridor in use by traffic other than pedestrians as high risk construction work, so a safe work method statement is needed before it starts.

Source: legislation.gov.au

The rules this door follows