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Standards and Guidelines Update – 21 March 2024

Published: | Category: Technical advice note | Audiences: Land developers, Road traffic engineers & consultants, Roading contractors

This newsletter provides a summary of recent revisions to existing standards and addition of new standards on the NZ Transport Agency Waka Kotahi (NZTA) register of standards and guidelines, and identifies NZTA standards that are currently being consulted on.

Waka Kotahi NZ Transport Agency standards and guidelines register for land transport

This newsletter replaces our former system of sending out individual Technical Advice Note (TAN) notifications every time an individual standard was reviewed or ratified and added to our register. The new format aims to make it easier to see all of our changes and future consultations in one place and reduce the number of emails sent to you. We may send individual TANs for significant changes to standards and individual TANs will still be issued to establish interim policy.

This new format newsletter is distributed approximately once every quarter (the frequency of newsletters will be reviewed).

Publication details

Revisions

New

Withdrawn

  • May 2020: Contractor health and safety expectations: Health and safety incident notification, investigation (Version 2) – this document will be replaced by Contractor expectations Health and safety incident notification, investigation, and reporting - Version 3 (April 2024).              
  • NZTA S8: 2017: Tunnels management and inspection policy this document has been replaced by S08-NZTA Specification for management of tunnels (December 2023).

For consultation

  • NZTA Aotearoa Urban Street Planning and Design Guidelines, Healthy Street Design Check Tool (Pilot). Consultation closes in March 2024. For more information, please contact streets@nzta.govt.nz
  • NZTA Landscape Assessment Guidelines (2024 Specification update). Consultation closes in May 2024. For more information, please contact sam.bourne@nzta.govt.nz
  • NZTA Landscape Guidelines, Tree Standard. Consultation closes in June 2024. For more information, please contact emma.golightly@nzta.govt.nz
  • Nature Based Solutions Framework. Consultation closes in September 2024. For more information, please contact sam.bourne@nzta.govt.nz

Further information