Powerlink works with landholders and other stakeholders to ensure our land access and engagement practices are aligned with landholder expectations. This brochure explains our Project Participation and Access Allowance (PPAA) protocol for landholders.
When Powerlink needs to acquire a new high voltage transmission line easement or substation site, we ask potentially affected landholders for access to their properties for investigations and consultation to allow an Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) to be completed.
We recognise that engaging with us may interrupt landholders in carrying out activities on their property that contribute to their income. In recognition of this potential interruption to agricultural business activities and the landholder’s cooperation, we developed a Project Participation and Access Allowance (PPAA), which is available to eligible landholders who are engaged in deriving their primary income from the property, and who meet the criteria explained in our PPAA information sheet. The PPAA doesn't apply to land zoned residential or rural residential as these properties are not typically used for income-producing activities.
Powerlink will consider whether the allowance is applicable to other transmission projects where engagement and land access activities interrupt landholders from primary production activities within the property that contribute to the landholder’s primary income.