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This page relates to the 2018-21 National Land Transport Programme.

Introduction

Work category 357 provides for non-routine work to protect the following from damage:

  • roads
  • road structures
  • eligible walking facilities
  • eligible cycle facilities.

Work category 357 also provides for non-routine work to minimise the threat of road closure from natural phenomena.

Qualifying activities

 

  • Examples of qualifying activities

    Examples of qualifying activities include:

    • new works to protect existing roads from sea or river damage
    • new drainage for incipient slips
    • toe-weighting of unstable slopes
    • protection planting designed to arrest the slumping or displacement of a road platform
    • work to overcome changes in a river’s course or bed level that threaten roads, bridges or other road-related structures, but which is not attributable to one climatic event.

    You can discuss with Waka Kotahi NZ Transport Agency whether other potential activities not in the above list might also be eligible for inclusion in this work category..

     

     

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Conditions of funding

The approved organisation and Waka Kotahi (state highways) must identify individual resilience improvement activities and justify them economically. They must be the long-term, least-cost option calculated in present value terms.

The cost of proposed works must be assessed against the Waka Kotahi policy on uneconomic roading facilities.

A risk assessment for each proposed activity must be undertaken, using the risk assessment table below.

Protection planting is an example of an activity which may be eligible for assistance under this work category. The following components of protection planting are eligible for funding assistance under this work category:

  • the initial costs of planting, including any fencing or other protective measures to prevent damage by stock
  • the purchase of any land required outside the road reserve for planting and/or retirement
  • compensation payable to a landowner for a covenant to retire land and/or plant trees for road protection where purchase is impracticable or undesirable.

Approval of funding assistance for protection planting is conditional on legally enforceable agreements that define the responsibilities for the management of retired areas outside the road reserve and ensure there is no duplication of funding assistance from Waka Kotahi or other sources. 

Funding assistance rate (FAR)

The usual FAR is:

Applying for funding approval

Applications for funding approval of proposed projects should be made through the resilience improvements module in Transport Investment Online(external link) (TIO). Projects of less than $1,000,000 should be added to a low-cost, low-risk programme. Projects over $1,000,000 must be added to a regional land transport plan for inclusion in the National Land Transport Programme.

End-of-year carryover

TIO will automatically carryover the unspent allocation every year (excluding minor improvements). Approved organisations and Waka Kotahi (state highways) must declare as surplus the unused allocation for completed projects by making a cost-scope adjustment via the reviews module in TIO.

Risk assessment table 

Descriptor

Consequence

Insignificant

Minor

Moderate

Major

Critical

Probability

Description

Minor delays during cleanup and/or insignificant risk to users

Reduced capacity and/or low risk to users

 

Reduced to half the capacity for more than 24 hours and/or unacceptable risk to users

Route closed for more than 24 hours and/or major risk to users

Route severed and/or extreme risk to users

Almost Certain

 

Expected to occur in most circumstances

High

High

Extreme

Extreme

Extreme

Likely

Will probably occur in most circumstances

Low

High

High

Extreme

Extreme

Possible

Might occur at sometime

Negligible

Low

High

Extreme

Extreme

Unlikely

Could occur at sometime

Negligible

Negligible

Low

High

Extreme

For eligible activities an investment assessment profile is required in addition to the risk assessment. This should use the Waka Kotahi Investment Assessment Framework.

The above risk assessment does not determine the results alignment for resilience Improvements activities. The road improvements results alignment assessment should be used to determine the results alignment.

Further information

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