Road construction and maintenance

Unique IDAY-0047DescriptionRoad construction, repair, resurfacing, regrading, and street watering for purposes of dust control. Also includes the realignment and re-levelling of roads. Note that not all roads have been under the care of municipal Councils. From at least 1867 (Municipalities Act s117) suburban councils were excluded from management of the 'main roads of the Colony' within their boundaries and this pattern of divided control between State and Local Government has generally persisted.CreationSydney Corporation Act 1842 ss80, 82.
Council empowered to repair, extend and open new streets.

Municipalities Act 1858 s78 (Councils other than the City of Sydney): care and management of public roads

Series

Circular Quay Supervisory Committee Minutes

South Sydney City Council Works Committee Agenda Papers

South Sydney City Council Planning and Development Committee Agenda Papers

City Projects Photograph Collection

City Engineer's Miscellaneous Cards

Acts and Gazettes Book

Wattle Street Pedestrian Bridge project records

City Engineers Plans Register

Legal Opinions Books

Deeds Registers

Paddington Labour Registers

Leichhardt General Correspondence and Subject Files

City of Sydney - Civic Survey, 1938-1950

Finance Committee Reports [Waterloo Municipal Council]

Minutes of the Special Committee of Enquiry into the City Surveyor's Department

George Street & Railway Square Upgrade Project Management Files

General Correspondence and Subject Files

City Surveyor's Specifications

City Surveyor's Contracts

Advertisements

City Surveyor's Reports

Petitions to Council

Index to City Engineer's Photographs II

Description

Start date1st November 1842End date1st November 1842Relationship legacy dataRELATED TO: Suburban municipal government FN-0029 (03/08/1859 to 31/12/1948)
RELATED TO: Streets engineering FN-0016 (01/11/1842)

Identification

Source system ID47

Relationships

FunctionStreets engineeringSuburban municipal government

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Road construction and maintenance