When creating plans of subdivision, you must provide roads, drainage reserves/easements and necessary drainage works.

The use of easements and reserves to protect our assets will be influenced by the type of asset, long term statutory responsibilities, implied rights and required control over use of the land.

This policy describes the scope of planning permit conditions that we request in response to planning applications referred to us under the Planning and Environment Act 1987, and planning schemes.

Our contributions policy details the owner's contributions for the provision of waterway, water quality treatment and drainage facilities, and the criteria upon which assessment of the amount of the contributions is based.

An owner who’s required to build our assets in conjunction with the development is reimbursed an amount towards the cost of the works by us.

Unless otherwise specified by us, the owner is responsible for the construction and recording of all works. The owner must meet all the pre-construction requirements before construction commences.

We expect land development consulting engineers and other practitioners to be fully competent and capable of delivering waterway and drainage services to a high standard.

The request for reservation of land, or the designation of easements, generally occurs at the subdivision stage. Among other things a plan of subdivision will generally provide easements and/or reserves for existing or future drainage, flooding, wetland and stormwater quality management purposes.

Connection to our asset is normally through outfall to a surface channel (either natural or constructed), or to an underground pipe system. The number of connections to our drainage system is to be minimised.