All building work must comply with the Building Act and the Tairāwhiti Resource Management Plan. This helps ensures all building work is safe, meets the Building Code and complies with planning requirements.
Depending on your project, approvals such as resource consent may be required before building work can begin. If additional information is needed to assess your application, this may affect processing time.
Apply for building consent using the application form. Building work must not begin until the invoice has been paid and the building consent has been issued and collected.
Before you build
What you need to know
Application forms
Building forms, checklists and guides
Fees
Link to Fees and Charges document
Consent process
Information you need with your application
Building and alterations
Guide to what you need to know
Granny flats
Building exemption rules
Minor building consent
Work that can be applied for as a minor consent
Relocating a building
Moving a house
Fireplaces
Installing a fireplace or woodburner
Swimming pool safety barriers
Fence requirements, checklist
Residential wastewater systems
Septic tank systems, site assessors and designers
Request property plans
Floor plan, site plan, building and plumbing and drainage plans
Development contributions
The policy for assessing contributions
Red and yellow stickers
Building safety placards issued due to flood or landslip
Building service complaint
Not happy with our service or have been refused a consent