Vehicle crossovers in Sale, Victoria

What council means by a crossover

A vehicle crossover is the section of concrete that joins your property boundary to the road, across the nature strip, footpath and kerb. Because it is on public land, Wellington Shire Council sets the design and requires a permit before work begins.

The Wellington Shire permit

Works within the road reserve need a permit from Wellington Shire Council. It covers location, width and construction and may include inspections of formwork before the pour. We prepare the application, attach the details council needs and build to the approved standard drawing.

Town streets, rural roads and highways

In Sale's kerbed streets the job usually includes cutting and reforming the kerb and reinstating any footpath. On rural roads around Longford, Fulham and the farming district there may be an open table drain, so a culvert pipe with endwalls is needed under the entrance. Access onto the Princes Highway, South Gippsland Highway or other arterial roads also needs approval from the state roads authority.

Services and street trees

Nature strips in Sale carry water, sewer, gas, power, NBN and stormwater. We locate and mark services before digging. Council sets clearances from street trees, poles and pits, which can affect where a crossover goes.

Replacing or widening

Cracked or broken crossovers can be replaced, and some can be widened for a second car or a caravan within council limits. We often do this together with a new driveway so the two finishes and levels line up.

Sale soils, Gippsland weather and Wellington Shire rules

Sale grew on the flats where the Thomson, Latrobe and Avon systems meet the Gippsland Lakes. Close to the rivers, the wetlands and Lake Guthridge, the ground is commonly heavy alluvial clay that holds water through winter and shrinks into deep cracks in a dry summer. On the higher ground and toward Wurruk and Longford there are sandy loams that drain well but loosen when they are disturbed, and along Ninety Mile Beach at Seaspray and the lake shore at Loch Sport the ground turns to fine coastal sand. Summers here regularly push past the high thirties, frosts are common on still winter mornings, and an easterly or a hot northerly can dry a fresh slab quickly. That combination is why we dig a test hole on every job and build the base, mix and curing around what we find.

Inside your own boundary, a driveway, path or patio normally needs no permit. Anything that crosses the nature strip, footpath or kerb needs a permit for works within the road reserve from Wellington Shire Council, which looks after Sale, Maffra, Stratford, Heyfield, Rosedale, Yarram and the lakes and coast townships. Access onto the Princes Highway, the South Gippsland Highway or other arterial roads also involves the state roads authority. Land subject to inundation overlays, house slabs and larger sheds can bring in a building surveyor and an engineer. Your quote states exactly what applies.

Reading a Sale Concreting quote

Every quote we send is itemised line by line. It lists the measured square metres, breaking out and carting away any existing concrete, pavers, asphalt or gravel, the excavation depth, the type and thickness of crushed rock and how it will be compacted, slab depth, the reinforcement and its cover, the finish or stone blend, where the saw cuts go, pits, grates and stormwater work, edging and steps, the sealer, and the Wellington Shire road-reserve permit if a crossover is involved. Extras such as a line pump, a long barrow run, traffic management on the Princes Highway or York Street, or boards to protect a neighbour's lawn appear as their own items so nothing is hidden.

You will not find square-metre rates anywhere on this site. In and around Sale, the same footprint can sit on firm sandy loam in the higher streets, on wet grey river-flat clay near the Thomson and Flooding Creek, or on uncontrolled fill behind an older house, and each needs a different base. A published figure would mislead most people, so we come out, look and price what your site really needs.