WC 331: Property purchase – state highways

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Introduction

This work category provides for the purchase of land by the Transport Agency for new and improved roading infrastructure for state highways.

Examples of qualifying activities

Examples of qualifying activities include, but may not be limited to:

• valuation
• legal surveys
• acquisitions, and
• compensation.

Other potential activities not shown above should be discussed with the Transport Agency for eligibility.

Principles and conditions, where relevant, may be applied to other activity classes

The principles and conditions of property purchase for state highways set out below may be applied to other activities classes, e.g. public transport improvements, walking and cycling improvements, where the Transport Agency has agreed that it will assist the funding for property purchased for land transport purposes prior to it approving funding for the construction/implementation of a project.

 Property purchase for other activity classes will be funded under the same work category that will be applied to construction/ implementation of the project, e.g. work category 531 for public transport infrastructure projects. 

Conditions

Conditions include:

• funding assistance will be based on the purchase price
• all costs must be identified by project and available for audit
• a land plan must be available for audit purposes and must indicate the area of land to be purchased and the part that is to be converted to road reserve, with each individual property to be identified on the plan, and
• total gross property purchase costs and the estimated value from disposal of surplus land are to be entered and updated phase in Transport Investment Online(external link) as a property phase.

Funding assistance rate

The usual funding assistance rate is:

• 100% of the Transport Agency's state highway costs.