This page relates to the 2021-24 National Land Transport Programme.
Introduction
Work category 171 provides for grants to approved organisations at the discretion of Waka Kotahi NZ Transport Agency (as investor).
Qualifying activities
Work category 171 is available to the local road maintenance activity class.
Local road and state highway maintenance
Examples of qualifying activities
Examples of qualifying activity include:
- a grant made to support the revocation and transfer of a road or road section from being a state highway to a local road which will in future be funded at the approved organisation’s normal funding assistance rate. The grant must not increase the local share of the maintenance programme costs by more than 3% over that allocated for the full year prior to the transfer.
You can discuss with us (Waka Kotahi as investor) whether other potential activities not listed above might also be eligible for inclusion in this work category.
Exclusions
The work category excludes:
- costs to ensure the road is in a fit-for-purpose condition prior to the transfer of ownership and all costs associated with the revocation process. These are funded under the relevant state highway maintenance or improvement activity class and work categories.
Funding assistance rate
The usual funding assistance rate is:
Submitting activities for NLTP consideration and funding approval
Approved organisations submit these activities using the improvements activity module in Transport Investment Online (TIO).
Transport Investment Online(external link)
User guides for TIO are available in TIO.
