Shaun Smith - Resident street parties
- 1. Resident Street Parties Shaun Smith informed
- 2. Street Party Road Closures 2 This Not This
- 3. Legislation • Road Traffic Act 1961 gives power to the Minister to close any road. • On 22 August 2013 the Minister for Transport and Infrastructure issued an Instrument of General Approval and Delegation to Council for Closing Roads for Events. • Sub delegation made by the Council to the Chief Executive Officer 3
- 4. Ellersmere 4
- 5. Problems 5
- 6. Street Party Kit • Local Street • Less then 1000vpd • Limit the amount of parties per weekend • Council staff run the Work Zone • Residents needs to consult with street • Advert in the Local Messenger • Resident Check list 6
- 7. Councils Checklist Lead Time Action Who 0 Street party happens Resident Minimum 2 days prior (Section 33 (3) of the Road Traffic Act 1961) Ad in Messenger and on Councils website Council Minimum 1 week prior Resident undertakes a letterbox drop Resident 2 Weeks prior Notify resident that the Street party is approved Council 2 Weeks prior CEO signs off on road closure Council 3 Weeks prior Report written for CEO sign off Council 3-4 Weeks prior Traffic Management Plan and Traffic Impact Statement created Council 4 Weeks prior Traffic Engineer confirms street is suitable and confirms this with resident Council Minimum 4 Weeks prior Resident provides Council with details of Street party: ï‚· Name of Street and sketch of portion of road to be closed ï‚· Date and time ï‚· Details of activity ï‚· List of neighbourhood support (template) ï‚· Risk Management plan (template) Resident 7 Time Frame
- 8. Questions • Any other Councils that allow residents to have street parties? 8
Editor's Notes
- #3: Talking about street parties for community events or residents getting together not major events like Clipsal etc or construction traffic work zone
- #4: Minister has given power to Council to close any roads under Councils care as well as give exemption to a number of Australian Road Rules. Cant be any roads that runs into or intersects with a DPTI road or a road that will affect traffic on an arterial road. The CEO can’t sub delegate the power to other Council employees.
- #5: In the past road closures have been a very informal process in which we’ve vever had any issues. Generally only get 1 or 2 street parties a year, usually the same 3 or 4 streets Ellesmere St has been having a street party for 35 years. They have their own people with WZTM tickets so we always just dropped off the signs on Friday and picked them up on Monday.
- #6: Street Party request on Grand Final Day, generally we assume that all residents are happy to have a street party but on this occasion one neighbour was completely against it. A new December street party initiative set up by Elected Members for $50. All of a sudden there was an influx of street party requests. Another issues that was raised was that were allowing the residents to run the Work Zone however this run the risk of Council being liable if anything happened as some of the streets didn’t have any residents with WZTM tickets.
- #7: With the influx of street party requests, council had had to set up a formal process for accessing and approving street parties Created a Street Party Kit (borrowed from Charles Sturt Council)
- #8: Council charges $200 for street party + $50 for the traffic management plan/Traffic Impact Statement and Splits the advertising cost 50/50 In December it’s a flat $100 Costs Council about $800 to have a street party.