Regional Emergency Road Repair Fund

The Regional Emergency Road Repair Fund (RERRF) supports councils across regional NSW to fix damaged roads, providing an additional $390million to regional councils to start vital repair and maintenance work.

This builds on the $280 million allocated to regional NSW councils through the Regional and Local Roads Repair Program.

Together these initiatives are providing $670 million in much needed funding to support regional areas of NSW to recover from natural disasters and maintain an efficient, safe and reliable road network.

The funding will be made available for priority maintenance works and immediate repair of potholes on local and regional roads managed by councils.

• The Regional Emergency Road Repair Fund

• File

  Regional Emergency Road Repair Fund Guidelines (PDF 490.76KB)
• Regional and Local Roads Repair Program

Eligibility

Who can apply

The fund is available to 95 regional local government bodies, including the Unincorporated Far West and Lord Howe Island Board.

View the list of eligible of councils and authorities.

The fund adopts the scope and requirements of the Regional and Local Roads Repair Program from January 2023.

The below outlines 3 descriptions of what is covered and not covered by the funding:

• Corrective maintenance - covered.
• Renewals - partially covered.
• Upgrades - partially covered.

Example projects

Eligible works under RERRF include

• corrective maintenance
  • heaving
  • patching
  • smoothing
  • reshaping (unsealed roads) drainage
  • culverts
  • bridge maintenance
  • kerb
  • gutter corrections 
  • repairs
• upgrade works
  • sealing shoulders
  • widening shoulders
  • carriageway widening
• renewal works
  • applying a partial asphalt overlay on top of a deteriorated road surface
  • improving the existing pavement and replacement with new pavement
  • resealing/resurfacing
  • gravel resheeting.

After the application is submitted

Funding allocations for the Regional Emergency Road Repair Fund will not require an application.

They are determined based on the existing applications received under the Regional and Local Roads Repair Program, total Local and Regional Road network within each Local Government Area (LGA) and the funding availability.

The method to determine the funding envelope provided to each council for the fund is consistent with the program and is based on kilometers of road network (including sealed and unsealed) managed in their Local Government Area ($/km). The funding is determined by considering  

• the total number of kilometers of local roads in each council area

• the total number of kilometers  of regional roads in each council area

• funding availability.

This program is funded and administered by Transport for NSW.