NSW Government moving forward with New Approach to Road Recategorisation
The NSW Government is moving forward with a New Approach to Road Recategorisation, demonstrating its commitment to delivering a road network that is fit for purpose with appropriate authorities funding and managing assets.
Transport for NSW is collaborating with councils and other key stakeholders as it introduces a refreshed way of identifying, submitting, assessing and implementing requests for roads to change categories.
It is designed to make processes more straightforward and transparent and provide a framework for road managers such as councils to understand how their roads are being used and which categories of State, Regional or Local roads they best fit into.
Historically there has been an ad-hoc approach to road recategorisation requests in NSW with road managers sometimes waiting several years for one-off periodic reviews that relied on subjective decisions.
The new Approach to Road Recategorisation will replace previous periodic reviews and will have an ‘always open’ approach for applications, meaning road managers such as councils will be able to submit proposals for road category changes at any time.