Infrastructure Agreements For Development Projects: Have You Considered The Essentials?

Infrastructure agreements are critically important to the delivery of a development project. They serve to govern the arrangements for key services facilitating a development such as the roads, drains, utilities and other essential infrastructure.

Getting these agreements right at an early stage helps avoid unexpected costs, delays to construction or occupation, and problems selling or funding the completed development.

Common types of agreement

• Section 278 agreements — works to connect the development to the existing adopted highway
• Section 38 agreements — construction and adoption of new estate roads
• Section 104 agreements — adoption of new sewers by the sewerage undertaker
• Section 185 agreements — diversion or alteration of public sewers