Public domain manual
Information about works on roads, drainage, footpaths, landscaping and other public spaces, referred to as the public domain.
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Takeaways
The public domain manual contains information to help you:
- prepare for approval of works in the public domain
- understand your responsibilities during the approval process to help avoid delays
- calculate, lodge and re-claim performance bonds related to public domain works
- smoothly manage the construction of public domain works
- understand the process and your responsibilities during the works completion, handover and defects liability periods.
The manual applies to public domain works during the following stages:
- Construction certificate approval, planning agreement works, Roads Act Approvals
- Lodgement of plans and details required to satisfy:
- conditions of consent prior to the issue of a construction certificate by a private certifying authority or the City of Sydney
- approval of public domain works associated with a planning agreement
- an approval for works in the public way required under the Roads Act.
- Lodgement of plans and details required to satisfy:
- Construction stage
- Construction of approved public domain works, including hold point inspections by the City of Sydney as asset owner and/or principal certifying authority.
- Works completion/handover and occupation certificate
- Completion of approved public domain works, including:
- rectification of defects
- preparation and lodgement of certified works-as-executed documentation
- obtaining a certificate of completion.
- Completion of approved public domain works, including:
