Community newsletters
Construction phase
- Community update December 2020 (PDF, 5MB) / (DOCX, 9.2MB)
- Community update December 2019 (PDF, 4.52MB) / (DOCX, 14.2MB)
- Community update September 2019 (PDF, 4,207KB) / (DOCX, 6,203KB)
- Community update May 2019 (PDF, 2.793MB) / (DOCX, 9.193MB)
- Community update January 2019 (PDF, 4.37MB) / (DOCX, 5.25MB)
- Community update October 2018 (PDF, 2.7MB) / (DOCX, 2.8MB)
- Community update June 2018 (PDF, 2.8MB) / (DOCX, 4MB)
- Community update March 2018 (PDF, 1.33MB)
- Community update December 2017 (PDF, 1.2MB)
- Community update September 2017 (PDF, 541KB)
- Community update June 2017 (PDF, 1.1MB)
- Community update April 2017 (PDF, 1MB)
- Community update July 2016 (PDF 548KB)
- Community update March 2016 (PDF 423KB)
- Community update September 2015 (PDF 3MB)
- Community update July 2015 (PDF 2MB)
Planning phase
Please contact us, if you would like a translated version of planning phase community updates.
Construction notifications
See all notifications of upcoming works that we often drop into the letterboxes of nearby residences and businesses.
Consultation reports
- Consultation Report September 2015 – May 2016 (PDF 5MB)
- Independent Consultation Report September 2015 – May 2016 (PDF 4MB)
- Consultation report April to July 2015 (PDF 523KB)
- Independent analysis of community feedback April to July 2015 (PDF 1MB)
Environment Effects Statement (EES)
- View the full set of EES documentation as well as project notes
Factsheets
- Building the new city connection - launching gantry fact sheet (PDF, 1682KB)
- Transporting construction materials to our worksites (PDF, 8.2 MB ) /(DOCX, 11.5 MB)
- New open space fact sheets for:
- Bella Guerin and Vida Goldstein fact sheet (PDF, 1.6MB)
- Benefits for Ballarat (PDF, 760KB)
- Benefits for Geelong (PDF, 760KB)
- Benefits for Melbourne’s west (PDF, 760KB)
- Construction overview – West Gate Freeway (PDF, 1.4MB)
- Arabic: Construction overview – West Gate Freeway (PDF, 1.0MB)
- Chinese: Construction overview – West Gate Freeway (PDF, 1.4MB)
- Greek: Construction overview – West Gate Freeway (PDF, 1.4MB)
- Italian: Construction overview – West Gate Freeway (PDF, 1.4MB)
- Vietnamese: Construction overview – West Gate Freeway (PDF, 1.4MB)
- Construction overview – Tunnels (PDF, 1.4MB)
- Construction overview – Port to City (PDF, 1.4MB)
- Arabic: Construction overview Port to City (PDF, 0.99MB)
- Chinese: Construction overview Port to City (PDF, 1.2MB)
- Greek: Construction overview Port to City (PDF, 1.2MB)
- Italian: Construction overview Port to City (PDF, 1.2MB)
- Vietnamese: Construction overview Port to City (PDF, 1.2MB)Fogarty Avenue power and drainage works (PDF, 1.5MB)
- Freight industry (PDF, 1.5MB)
- Keeping traffic moving (PDF, 3.897kb)
- Managing construction impacts (PDF, 4.16MB)
- Reducing traffic noise (PDF, 790KB)
- Removing trucks from inner west streets (PDF, 838KB)
- Toll prices (PDF, 579KB)
- Tunnelling (PDF, 5,565KB)
- Tunnel ventilation and air quality (PDF, 643KB)
- Urban design (PDF, 1.2MB)
- Walking and cycling (PDF, 1.1MB)
Maps
- Project scope map (PDF, 93kb)
- Explore the design in more detail through our interactive map
- More detailed maps can be found in the Development and Urban Design Plans, updated and approved in December 2017:
Monitoring reports: air quality
For more information about air quality monitoring, see tunnel ventilation and air quality.
- December 2020 (PDF,3.5MB)
- November 2020 (PDF,3.8MB)
- October 2020 (PDF, 3.8MB)
- September 2020 (PDF, 3.1MB)
- August 2020 (PDF, 3.8MB)
- July 2020 (PDF, 5.6MB)
- June 2020 (PDF, 2.9MB)
- May 2020 (PDF, 5.09MB)
- April 2020 (PDF, 4.86MB)
- March 2020 (PDF, 4.35MB)
- February 2020 (PDF, 4.7MB)
- January 2020 (PDF, 7.92MB)
- December 2019 (PDF, 4.24MB)
- November 2019 (PDF, 4.85MB)
- October 2019 (PDF, 2.81MB)
- September 2019 (PDF, 3.76MB)
- August 2019 (PDF, 3.85MB)
- July 2019 (PDF, 4.7MB)
- June 2019 (PDF, 5,54MB)
- May 2019 (PDF, 5,59MB)
- April 2019 (PDF, 5,38MB)
- March 2019 (PDF, 5.59MB)
- February 2019 (PDF, 5.07MB)
- January 2019 (PDF, 5.70MB)
- December 2018 ((PDF, 4.15MB)
- November 2018 (PDF, 3.97MB)
Please note: The November 2018 report has been updated to correct some minor factual inconsistencies. There are no changes to the results or any exceedance or discussion comments. - October 2018 (PDF, 3.71MB)
- August – September 2018 (PDF, 2MB)
Please note: from 9 – 22 August 2018, our air quality monitoring stations were changed over and did not record data. To see data from this period, you can view historical data recorded at nearby EPA stations. - July 2018 (PDF, 3.9MB)
- June 2018 (PDF, 2.9MB)
- May 2018 (PDF, 4.83MB)
- April 2018 (PDF, 2.36MB)
- March 2018 (PDF, 6.97MB)
- February 2018 (PDF, 3.48MB)
- January 2018 (PDF, 3.91MB)
- July – December 2017 (PDF, 1.9MB)
- Up to June 2017 (PDF, 1.49MB) – this report was tabled at the Environment Effects Statement panel hearings in August 2017
Planning approvals
The West Gate Tunnel Project requires a number of key approvals under Victorian legislation, including:
- Planning Scheme Amendment
- Development and Urban Design Plans
- Environmental Performance Requirements
- Environmental Management Strategy
- Environmental audits
- Communications and Community Engagement Plan
- Works Approval application
- Cultural Heritage Management Plan
Regulation and legislation
Model Utility Agreement Guidelines
The Minister for Road Safety, as Project Minister, has prepared the Model Utility Agreement Guidelines in respect of commercial arrangements required to govern utility agreements for the purposes of the West Gate Tunnel Project. Learn more.
More information
Visit the Department of Transport’s document archive to learn about the project’s business case.
Fact sheets and discussion papers from previous designs are available upon request