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6.2.12 Naming access lanes off Perrams Road

REPORT BY THE REVENUE & PROPERTY MANAGER TO 23 JULY 2014 COUNCIL MEETING Naming access lanes off Perrams Road GOV400038, A0790141, R0790041

RECOMMENDATION That: 1. the report by the Revenue & Property Manager on the naming of access lanes off

Perrams Road be received; 2. Council name access track 1 Wattle Brae Lane and access track 2 Sutters Lane.

Executive summary

In an effort to provide clear and concise addressing for multiple properties using one access point, it is requested that Council name two access tracks off Perrams Road, AARONS PASS.

Detailed report

Council has a requirement, under the Addressing Standard, to provide clear and concise addressing for all properties within the Council area. Seven properties are accessed via tracks off Perrams Road. At the moment their addressing relates to the point the first access track leaves Perrams Road rather than the actual point at which their property is accessed. Council wrote to affected property owners on 10 June 2014 advising that Council was looking into naming the tracks and requested their naming suggestions. Submissions closed 4 July 2014 and during this period two (2) submissions were received with the following names suggested: 1. Wattle Brae Lane or Track 2. Sutters Lane 3. Hill View Lane

Financial and Operational Plan implications

The cost of Gazettal notice is approximately $60 and the purchase and installation of two street signs along with a No Through Road sign is approximately $1200. These costs are included in the 2014-215 Operational Plan.

Community Plan implications

Street naming is legislated under the Roads Act 1993. This Act empowers the authority in charge of the road with the rights to name it. The naming of the access tracks will allow more precise addressing to be allocated to the properties that use them. Section 162 of the Roads Act (1993) states that “a road authority may name and number all public roads for which it is the authority. A roads authority may not alter the name of a public road unless it has given the Geographical Names Board (GNB) at least two months notice of the proposed name.” The Geographical Names Board has been advised of these possible road names and has no objection to them.

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In accordance with Council’s Road Naming Policy, the names that Council endorses for these access tracks will be: 1. advertised in The Mudgee Guardian inviting submissions in writing from the public for a

period of 21 days. 2. concurrently, notice of the proposed names will be sent to Australia Post, the Registrar

General, the Surveyor General, the Chief Executive of the Ambulance Service of NSW, New South Wales Fire Brigades, the NSW Rural Fire Service, the NSW Police Force, the State Emergency Service, the New South Wales Volunteer Rescue Association Inc, and, in the case of a classified road – Roads & Maritime Services, inviting submissions in writing for a period of 21 days.

At the expiration time for the lodgement of submissions, a further report will be prepared for Council addressing any submissions received and recommending the formal adoption of the proposed road names, and Gazettal of the new road names.

DIANE SAWYERS REVENUE & PROPERTY MANAGER

BRETT EXELBY DIRECTOR, FINANCE AND ADMINISTRATION

9 July 2014 Attachments: 1. Correspondence received from the Geographical Names Board 2. Submissions and Pre-Approved Names List 3. Map of the tracks to be renamed. APPROVED FOR SUBMISSION:

BRAD CAM GENERAL MANAGER

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