EXCAVATION

For all invasive works on the Corridor

If you are:

• Digging, drilling, or resurfacing
• Doing any activity that will alter, or cause to be altered, the surface of the road corridor.
• Placing any pipe, duct, pole, cabinet or other structure below, on or above the road corridor.
• Building a new driveway or installing a new storm water drain that leads into the road corridor.
• Performing maintenance work on any essential infrastructure
• Building a new fence and your work site or equipment encroaches onto the road corridor.
• Digging / replacing manhole access covers.

If you are sure you are excavating

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NON-EXCAVATION

Simplify the process of requesting permits

If you are:

• Holding an event, protest or parade that affects vehicle or pedestrian traffic
• Temporary installing construction loading zones
• Installing a new driveway
• Placing a skip/bin or container in the road reserve
• Holding an event
• Putting up temporary scaffolding (mobile or fixed)
• Using or parking machinery such as cranes, cherry pickers and water blasters
• Applying for a full or partial road or footpath closure to carry out work on or above the road

If you are sure you are not excavating

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WHAT IS CORRIDORACCESS?

C orridorAccess allows you to lodge your Corridor Access Request (CAR) for all activities in the Road Corridor.
This includes Retrospective CARs, Events, Provisional and any other activities that require a CAR to be submitted by the relevant Road Authority. CorridorAccess works in conjunction with beforeUdig to provide a total service for those working in and around the road corridor.

CORRIDORACCESS SERVICE AIMS

To assist Contractors to comply with the requirement for any person intending to work in a Road Corridor to apply for, and receive, a permit from Road Authorities prior to closing off road or footpath areas.

• Simplify the process of requesting plans for a dig site
• Reduce the number of personal injuries
• Prevent injuries to workers
• Protect underground assets from interruption and preventable damage
• Provide a single point of request for information on where underground assets are located

WHO SHOULD USE CORRIDORACCESS?

Whether you are a home owner wanting to replace a fence, a contractor installing a new cable along a street or working for a council in re-sheeting the road, beforeUdig is the best and safest place to start your project.

• Building or designing a new optic fibre network?
• Road restoration works?
• Undertaking scheduled maintenance of an existing underground asset?
• Building a new fence?
• Planning a new estate?