The maintenance of roads in Frankston City is shared between Council and VicRoads.
Our responsibility in ensuring a safe and efficient road network in Frankston City is outlined in the Road Management Act 2004 (Vic). Under the Act:
- Frankston City Council is the coordinating road authority for a municipal road (all roads listed in the Public Road Register).
- VicRoads is the coordinating road authority for a freeway or arterial road.
As part of our responsibility in the Act, we must maintain a Public Road Register which lists all public roads in Frankston City, along with the coordinating authority.
Learn more about the Public Road Register.
The Road Management Plan outlines the management system adopted by Council to carry out our responsibilities under the Act and how we inspect, maintain and repair public roads. This may include attending to:
- fallen trees from the nature strip
- broken or missing pit lids on the nature strip
- signs on the nature strip
- potholes
- road maintenance and reseals.
Learn more about the Road Management Plan or Road Management Act.
Council is currently reviewing its Road Management Plan – have your say on the revised plan from 28 April – 28 May 2025 at: https://engage.frankston.vic.gov.au/RMP
A number of main roads and major thoroughfares in Frankston City are managed and maintained by VicRoads or other authorities.
Where those main roads have a service lane such as Cranbourne Road or Frankston-Dandenong Road, VicRoads maintains the main road while Council manages and maintains the service road.
Roads managed by VicRoads
- Ballarto Road
- Baxter-Tooradin Road
- Cranbourne Road
- Cranbourne-Frankston Road
- Dandenong-Hastings Road or Westernport Highway
- Dandenong Road West
- Davey Street, between Nepean Highway and Hastings Road
- Fletcher Road
- Frankston-Dandenong Road
- Frankston-Flinders Road
- Hastings Road
- Klauer Street
- Moorooduc Highway
- Frankston Freeway
- Lathams Road, from Rutherford Road
- Nepean Highway
- Seaford Road
- Thompson Road
- Wells Road - Overton Road to Klauer Street
All footbridges over the Frankston Freeway, Wells Road and Brunel Road are Managed by VicRoads.
Road, traffic and hazardous road conditions can be reported to VicRoads.
Roads managed by Peninsula Link
Phone Peninsula Link: 1300 453 035
Roads managed by Connect East
Phone Connect East: 13 54 65
Roads on the municipality's boundaries
- Thompson Road, City of Greater Dandenong: 9239 5100
- Baxter-Tooradin Road Sages Road, Mornington Peninsula Shire: 1300 850 600
- Humphries Road, Mornington Peninsula Shire: 1300 850 600
- Eel Race Road (West of Eel Race drain), Kingston City Council: 1300 653 356
When you see yellow lines on local roads and footpaths, this is part of Council’s regular maintenance programs to assess any issues with kerbs, roads and footpaths.
Council’s work crews can then easily locate the site to decide on appropriate repairs and to make the area safe within three days.
Asset inspections are conducted between every month to two years depending on risk and location. For example, school areas are checked more frequently than zones with less traffic.
A recent audit showed that 99 per cent of the local pathway network is in good condition and over 95 per cent of roads meet the target condition level.
Your council road system has a road transport network of 700km, including 665km of sealed roads. Council's program to treat and resurface selected sealed roads is based on a condition assessment rating. Council main roads and bus routes are routinely patrolled to minimise immediate dangers to the travelling public.
Vic Roads is the road authority for freeways, highways and declared main roads such as Nepean Highway, Cranbourne Road and Frankston Freeway.
If you wish to carry out works in the road reserve or vehicle crossing, you will need to apply for a permit. Visit our Road reserves and vehicle crossings page for more information.
Case study: Road repairs requested by the community (reactive)
Target response time: 48 hours
Actual response time: 47 hours
Sam Reilly was driving to work when she noticed a pothole in Gum Hill Drive, Langwarrin. She contacted us via the Council website, which created a customer service record and a work order, on 28 January 2025 at 3:21 pm.
An initial inspection on 28 January 2025 at 3:52 pm, confirmed the pothole was in front of 7 Gum Hill Drive, with a low public safety risk due to the size of the pothole. The work couldn’t be completed on the spot - a separate team would need to do the repair by 24 February 2025 at 11:20pm.
The pothole was filled on 30 January 2025 at 2:30. The work order was closed, and details of the repair sent automatically to the customer service record, resolving the request.
Routine road inspections (defects found)
Target response time: 30 working days
Actual response time: 20 working days
Based on the roads hierarchy in the Road Management Plan (RMP)), each road in the Public Roads Registry is scheduled for recurring routine inspections. Depending on the type of road, these happen as often as every three months or up to every two years.
All Local Roads in Maintenance Zone 5 were scheduled for routine inspections in February 2025. When the scheduled date arrived, the Asset Management System issued inspection records for all inspections of the same road type in the same zone to the Council’s asset inspector. During February 2025, there were 409 road related Inspections for Zone 5. The Asset Inspector works through the inspections, completing each one as he physically walks through the streets of the zone.
Manna Gum Court, Carrum Downs, is a Local Road in Maintenance Zone 5. During the inspection there, the officer found that red reflective discs were missing at the end of the court. He issued a work order which was automatically sent to roads team. The work order was generated on 12 February 2025 at 7:33am, with a due date of 27 March 2025. The work was completed on 12 March 2025 at 8:50am.
Routine road inspections (no defects found)
Target response time: One calendar month
Actual response time: 24 days
Dairy Place, Skye is classified as a Local Road and in Maintenance Zone 5 and was scheduled for routine inspection in February 2025.
The inspection for Dairy Place, Skye was issued on 1 February 2025 and was expected to be completed within the calendar month. This inspection was completed on 24 February 2025 at 11:11am. At the time the inspection was completed, there were no defects found, so the inspection record was closed without any work orders being raised.
Please note – the target times are based on Council’s existing Road Management Plan, which is currently under review and will be updated in mid-2025.
You can find out more about the review and provide feedback from 28 April – 28 May 2025 at: https://engage.frankston.vic.gov.au/RMP.