A new Gates and Grids Subordinate Local Law has been proposed by Council to administer a permit system for landholders seeking to maintain responsibility for a gate or grid on a Council-managed road.

Council's Gates and Grids Policy ensures these assets meet appropriate safety standards and the responsibility for insurance, inspection, maintenance, repair and replacement is clearly defined and understood by landholders.

Management options

The policy provides landholders with the following options for management of these assets:

1. Gates and grids can be transferred to Council.; Council will insure, inspect, maintain and repair the gate or grid at Council’s cost with landholders to fund the replacement of the structures at the end of its useful life; or
2. Landholders obtain a permit from Council to have a gate or grid in the road which comes with the responsibility of insuring, inspecting, maintaining, repairing and replacing the structures at the landholder’s cost and indemnifying Council from all claims.

Alternatively, landholders can advise that the gate or grid is no longer required, and Council will remove it from the maintained road and reinstate the road surface at Council’s cost.

How can I join the conversation?

Public submissions are now open to allow the community to share their feedback and influence amendments to the subordinate local law before endorsement in a Council General Meeting in November. Public submissions close 31 October 2023.