BUILDING ACT 1975 - SECT 246X
Designation of transport noise corridor—local governments
BUILDING ACT 1975 - SECT 246X
Designation of transport noise corridor—local governments
246X Designation of transport noise corridor—local governments
(1) A local
government may, by gazette notice, designate land as a transport noise
corridor.
(2) A local government may designate land under subsection (1) only
if—
(a) the land is within—
(i) 100m of a road under its control; or
(ii)
a distance of more than 100m but not more than 200m of a road under its
control, if the noise level caused by traffic on the road at the distance has
been measured, in a way approved by the chief executive, to be at least
58db(A); and
(b) the road has an AADT of at least 3,000 vehicles.
(3) At
least 20 business days before acting under subsection (1) , the local
government must give the chief executive written notice about the proposed
designation.
(4) The notice must—
(a) identify the land that is proposed to
be designated; and
(b) include information reasonably required by the chief
executive about the likely levels of noise within the proposed transport noise
corridor caused by traffic on the road for which the designation is proposed;
and
(c) state the proposed gazettal day for the designation.
(5) The
information mentioned in subsection (4) (b) must be given in the form required
by the chief executive.
(6) If the local government designates land under
this section, the land must be—
(a) identified specifically in the gazette
notice; or
(b) identified generally in the gazette notice, and identified
specifically in documents described in the gazette notice and available for
inspection at an office of the local government mentioned in the gazette
notice.
(7) In this section—
"AADT" , for a road, means its annual average daily traffic rate worked out by
using the following formula— where—
"AADT" is the annual average daily traffic rate.
"V" is the total volume of vehicular traffic for the road in a year, worked
out under a relevant guideline for measuring traffic volume published by
Austroads.
