7 WORKS CLASSIFICATION7.3 Registerable Works Page 42
7.3.4 Included and Excluded Works
Works promoters must register, or notice, all works that:
(a) Involve the breaking up or resurfacing any street, (see below for pole testing and coring involving excavation).
(b) Involve opening the carriageway or cycleway of traffic-sensitive streets at traffic sensitive times.
(c) Require any form of temporary traffic control as defined in the Code of Practice for Safety at Street Works and Road Works.
(d) Reduce the lanes available on a carriageway of three or more lanes.
(e) Require a temporary traffic regulation order or notice, or the suspension of pedestrian facilities.
(f) Require a reduction in the width of the existing carriageway of a traffic-sensitive street at a traffic-sensitive time
Works promoters do not need to register the following works in advance however, where reinstatement is carried out it must be registered within 10 days of completion.
• traffic census surveys - because disclosure prior to a census can encourage a change in normal traffic flows
• pole testing involving excavation - does not require registration in advance, unless one or more of rules (b) - (f) above, apply.
• core holes - not exceeding 150 mm in diameter do not require registration in advance, unless one or more of rules
(b) - (f) above, apply.
• road markings - that are not part of a larger set of works and do not reduce the width of the carriageway, as they do not involve breaking up of the highway
If a street authority gives prior written agreement to a works promoter, small excavations may not need to be registered in advance, unless one or more of rules (b) - (f) above, apply. For this purpose small excavations are defined as those associated with existing apparatus and that do not exceed 150 mm distance from the building line and are no larger than150 mm.
The statutory requirements for signing, lighting and guarding of all of the above activities, as well as the requirements for the legal parking of any associated vehicles, must be complied with at all times.
Code of Practice for the Co-ordination of Street Works and Works for Road Purposes and Related Matters