Please be advised Building Consents lodging and processing will be paused from 20 December 2025 – 10 January 2026. The Building Act defines days within this period as not being ‘working days’. However, our Building Control team will be available for inspections from Monday 5 January. Thank you for your patience and we wish you a safe and happy festive season.

From 1 July 2025 we're changing to a fees up front payment system. This means that payment is made at the application stage and when we have granted the application we can issue it to the customer at the same time - speeding up the turnaround time on building consents. Any additional processing time (recoverable on an actual and reasonable basis, as per the Building Act 2004 s281B) and planning/engineering approval charges (if applicable) will be invoiced at the end of processing.