Local Government (Highways) Act 1982

In this Part, street works means any works for the forming, levelling, draining, paving, flagging, macadamizing, sealing, or otherwise making good of a street and, without prejudice to the generality of the foregoing provisions of this subsection, includes the following works:the construction of bridges or culverts in or under the street; the planting of trees, and the erection of treeguards, in the street; the construction of nature strips or similar areas in the street; the making, at the meeting of the street with any other street or way, of crossings across the footpath, kerb, and drain of that other street or way; the provision of vehicular crossings between the carriage-way of the street and land fronting on the street; the provision of conduits in the street for the more efficient or easy laying, maintenance, or replacing of pipes and other apparatus for the supply of water to land fronting on the street; the provision of drains between the boundary of the street and a drain in the street; works rendered necessary by the altering of the level of the street.

Where a street has not at any time been well and sufficiently made, the corporation may, in accordance with a scheme under this Part, carry out such street works as it considers necessary to put that street in a proper condition in substantial conformity with the standard requirements, recovering the cost of the works in the manner provided in this Part.

Where a scheme provides for the construction or making good in a length of street of a footpath, kerb, or drain, that scheme shall provide for the construction or making good of a footpath, kerb, or drain along the whole of so much of each side or boundary of the street as is next opposite lands built on or capable of being built on.