review of issues affecting utilities and road, rail and motorway corridors
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Review of Issues Affecting Utilities and Road, Rail and Motorway Corridors. Mike Sim & Hamish Elliott Resources & Networks Branch Ministry of Economic Development. MED Introduction. Introduction & Context Key issues and proposed outcomes Legislative Consistency What is a road?. Context. - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
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Review of Issues Affecting Utilities and Road, Rail and Motorway Corridors
Mike Sim & Hamish ElliottResources & Networks BranchMinistry of Economic Development
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MED Introduction• Introduction &
Context• Key issues and
proposed outcomes
• Legislative Consistency
• What is a road?
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ContextGovernment aims:
to enhance infrastructure's net contribution to economic growth and societal well-being over time, while reducing the incidence and severity of service failures and adverse effects on the environment.
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ContextMED Statement of Intent 2005-2008:
The complexity of infrastructure issues, and the fundamental importance of infrastructure in a modern, export-led economy, make infrastructure development an on-going area of strategic importance for the Ministry.
There is a need to co-ordinate supply arrangements across different infrastructure suppliers (roading, electricity, sewerage, etc), including central and local government and the private sector.
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Context• September 2004, MED consultation to amend s24 &
31 Electricity Act, to extend the access regime for electricity works above 110kV and 100MVA on roads and level crossings.
• Broader issues about utilities access to road and rail corridors raised.
• Cabinet agreed to a review of those broader issues by 31 October 2005.
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Context• MED discussion paper reviews issues
• Submissions due Friday 5 August 2005
• Report back to POL by 31 October 2005
NZUAG/MED Seminars to engage stakeholders’ perceptions and feelings
of the issues and possible solutions
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Policy Framework & Analysis Criteria
MED aims to review the issues with a policy framework and analysis criteria that:
• examines the issues at question in a just and reasonable manner
• explores solutions that provide a balanced result for key stakeholders
• does not shift the balance of power so as to particularly favour one or the other stakeholders.
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KEY ISSUES
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Key Issues• legislative consistency – the need for harmonisation• defining a road• access to motorways and the rail corridor• notification of affected parties• definition and application of reasonable conditions• cost sharing issues• dispute provisions• interference and hazards • strategic planning and coordination of utility works within the
road.
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Legislative Consistency – The Need for Harmonisation?Key Questions:
• Is the utilities legislative regime piecemeal and disparate?
• Does the legislation result in inconsistency, vagueness, and difficulties for utility operators and RCAs to work together?
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Legislation: Utilities Access to Roads• Land Drainage Act 1908• Transit Act 1989• Gas Act 1992• Electricity Act 1992• Postal Services Act 1998• Telecommunications Act 2001• Local Government Act 2002• Cadastral Survey Act 2002 • Railways Act 2005
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The majority of issues arise from a perception of inconsistent legislation.
First we will examine the issues and then return to solutions for legislative
consistency at the end of the seminar.
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Issues addressed in this review are NOT being considered within
the bounds of the Resource Management Act 1991
RMA stands alongside utilities legislation. RMA prescribes what utilities
must comply with in terms of environmental and amenity issues.
Utilities legislation prescribes health and safety, operational, and asset
management responsibilities and requirements.
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DEFINING A ROAD
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Defining a “Road”
Inconsistent definitions of “road” create ambiguity, confusion, and contention for
utility access rights to “roads”.
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The Concept of “Road”Superficially, roads provide for transport of
vehicles and people.
They are also a transportation corridor for utilities (electricity, gas,
telecommunications, water, wastewater, and stormwater).
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The Concept of “Road”
RCAs manage the road on behalf of many stakeholders and this access must be
managed and coordinated in a safe, efficient, and fair manner.
MED recognises that both Utilities and RCAs all share a common interest as they are all serving the community.
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The Concept of “Road”: Questions to Consider• Should the road surface (upon which vehicles travel,
and including footpaths) be considered an individual utility alongside other utility operators (e.g. electricity, gas) within the road corridor?
• Should the principal objective of the road corridor be to carry vehicular and pedestrian traffic, or provide a corridor for the location of utility networks (including vehicular and pedestrian traffic as a utility)?
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The Common DefinitionLocal Government Act 1974 s315: Road =
carriageways and unformed areas, footpaths and pedestrian accessways (berms and other grassed areas), and as the total area from boundary to boundary, customarily referred to as “Road Reserve”
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The Common DefinitionTransit NZ Act 1989 s43 :
“Road means a public highway, whether carriageway, bridle path, or footpath…” and includes a number of clauses relating to types of land allotments
“…and all bridges, culverts, drains, ferries, fords, gates, buildings, and other things thereto belonging, upon the line and within the limits of the road”.
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The Common DefinitionElectricity & Gas Acts 1992, Railways Act 2005 all define road as having: the same meaning as in section 315 of the Local
Government Act 1974; and includes a road under the jurisdiction of any local authority; [and also includes a public footpath;] and also includes a State highway within the meaning of section 2(1) of the Transit New Zealand Act 1989; but does not include—
(a) A private road within the meaning of section 315 of the Local Government Act 1974; or
(b) A motorway within the meaning of the Transit New Zealand Act 1989; or
(c) Any roadway laid out by order of the Maori Land Court under [sections 315 to 327 of Te Ture Whenua Maori Act 1993] or under any former Act, except where that order has been cancelled, or where the roadway has been declared under [section 320] of that Act to be a road; or
(d) Any level crossing.
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The Inconsistent DefinitionTelecommunications Act 2001 s5:“Road” includes (a) a street and any other place to which the public
have access, whether as of right or not; and (b) land that is vested in a local authority for the
purpose of a road as shown on a deposited survey plan; and
(c) all bridges, culverts, ferries, and fords that form part of any road, street, or any other place referred to in paragraph (a) or paragraph (b).
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Defining a “Road”- Proposal
Amend the definition of “road” within the Telecommunications Act 2001 to that of the
definition of “road” provided within the Electricity and Gas Acts 1992.
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Next Session:
• Access to motorways and the rail corridor
• Notification of affected parties
• Definition and application of reasonable conditions
• Cost sharing issues
Morning Tea