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WORKS AND FACILITIES COMMITTEE MEETING
HELD ON TUESDAY 14 NOVEMBER 2006 Page 6
QUESTIONS ON NOTICE FROM PUBLIC 06.0042; 04.8820
Works and Facilities Committee Meeting held on 10 October 2006
The following questions were taken on notice from Mrs Morley. The responses are shown in
italics following the questions.
WPF06/20
Councillors, our workers have brought to my attention some facts about the Bypass and felt
that it was worth sharing with you. So, to my favourite topic the Bypass and Surf Beach
Avenue which was classified as a major road and mentioned as such once again on 30 March
2006. Major roads are to be protected as through traffic routes from the effects of traffic
generating development, the primary role is to be safe and efficient transport routes.
The Urban LEP, No. 63 states:
“A major road means any main road or arterial road or any other road which in the opinion of
the Council, carries or is likely to carry a significant volume of vehicular traffic.”
(At latest count Surf Beach Avenue 2,800vpd.)
If you turn to Page 4 of today’s agenda, “34 What are the objectives of the road zones?” You
will see that it is mentioned again.
So we ask is it really consistent with the Urban LEP to cut a major road, Surf Beach Avenue
when its function is a through traffic route?
In Clause 34 of the Urban LEP three objectives are listed for the road zones. The first of
these objectives is “to identify existing and future major roads to reinforce the hierarchy of
roads in the area of Eurobodalla”. Clearly the proposed intersection arrangements reinforce
and even re-establish the hierarchy of roads with George Bass Drive being the major arterial
road and lower Surf Beach Avenue returning to its function of a residential collector road.
You will also be interested to know that in a report to Works and Facilities Meeting March
2004 the total revised cost of the construction of the Spine Road and Bypass was $10,812,000
with a built in contingency factor of 20%, $1802 indicating that the cost was only $9,010,000.
There were 4 costings of the 15 that are of extreme interest that were allocated to the Surf
Beach area, which indicates that in 2004 there was still to be an intersection at Surf Beach
Avenue and the bypass.
If Surf Beach Avenue was to be cut, where is the costing for the proposed Link Access Road?
The extract of the report presented by Mrs Morley included a table entitled “Details of
Estimate – Spine Road”. Amongst the items listed in that table was the following:
“270,000 Spine Road to Surfbeach Avenue
100,000 New Surfbeach Avenue intersection”.
Both these items refer to the Link Road connecting the Spine Road to Surf Beach Avenue and
the intersection of the Link Road and the Bypass.