Building consent fees

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• The fixed fee includes processing, one inspection and a code compliance certificate.
• Additional fees may apply if requests for further information or additional inspections are required.

This deposit is payable for all residential and commercial consent applications.

Actual costs will be calculated at the time of the processing decision.

Residential applications, excluding multi-storey apartment buildings

New buildings, additions and alterations.

Commercial applications, including multi-storey apartment buildings

New buildings, additions and alterations.

Amendment of a building consent

Miscellaneous fees associated with the granting of building consent and other requests

•  This is a fixed processing fee for applications from participants in the streamline consenting process.
• The fixed fee covers only the processing costs for the consent and does not include inspections or any other Council or government fees or levies.
• Additional categories of work may be added to the streamline building consent process with appropriate fees set at the discretion of the General Manager of the Strategy, Planning and Regulatory Services Group.

Building consent inspection

Building inspection fees, per inspection, not exceeding one hour.

Where the actual time of an inspection exceeds one hour then additional fees will be charged. These additional inspection fees will be based on the fee per inspection and charged in 15-minute increments. 

Please note that the time taken for a building inspection is not necessarily all on-site. This also applies to virtual inspections. Officer time associated with the inspection of a building will be charged, and this may include assessment, communications and decisions made off-site e.g. desktop inspections.

Notice to fix

Where the cost to process a notice to fix exceeds the scheduled fee, the additional time will be charged at the relevant officer charge-out rate.

Extension of time to start work

The fee includes deposit, assessment and inspection. Where the cost to process a certificate for public use exceeds the scheduled fee then additional time will be charged at the relevant officer charge out rate. 

Where the cost to make a code compliance certificate decision exceeds the fee paid then additional time will be charged at the relevant officer charge out rate.

Where the cost to process a compliance schedule exceeds the scheduled fee then additional time will be charged at the relevant officer charge-out rate.

* Multiple features i.e. a Type 2 and a Type 4 fire alarm system within one compliance schedule is under the same specified system and recognised as one charge.

Schedule 1 Exemption applications – fixed fee

Please note that this fee applies whether the decision is to approve or decline the application. Where the cost to process an exemption exceeds the fee then the additional cost will be charged at the relevant officer charge-out rate.

Sometimes, building work to be done under an exemption application would trigger the requirement for a development contribution to be paid, if the work had been part of a building consent application. Instead of exercising its discretion to decline the exemption application, the Council may seek agreement to the payment of a Development Impact fee as a condition of granting the exemption (also see clause 2.9.3 of the Development Contributions Policy).

Certificate of acceptance – deposit 

Where the cost to process a certificate of acceptance exceeds the deposit then the additional cost will be charged at the relevant officer charge-out rate.

S97(e) fees are separate and additional to processing costs and apply to all applications under S96(1)a.

In the case of an application for a certificate of acceptance under Section 96(1)(a) of the Building Act 2004, the application must be accompanied by any fees, charges or levies that would have been payable had the owner, or the owner’s predecessor in title, applied for a building consent before carrying out the building work.

This is calculated on a case-by-case basis for each application and must be paid before processing starts.

Project information memoranda (PIM) – deposit

Where the cost to process a PIM exceeds the deposit then additional time will be charged at the relevant officer charge-out rate.

Where the cost to process a change of use exceeds the deposit then the additional cost will be charged at the relevant officer charge-out rate. The fee is based on a two-hour technical review and administration.

Note that additional roles may be added during the period that this schedule applies, and the rate charged will be the existing role that is closest to the new role.

The partnership approvals service is available for projects where a case management approach will assist with the rebuild of the city.

Examples are projects that are high profile, either in terms of the site or the proposed development, high dollar value, highly complex, or customers with multiple projects.

Staff time will be charged at the applicable hourly rate, including time spent on administration, research and assessment, meeting attendance (as applicable) and advice. 

Estimates set under section 12 of Local Government Act

Requests for estimates of development contributions where no building consent, resource consent, subdivision consent or service connection has been applied for.

You can get an estimate of your development contributions (fixed fee applies) or use our development contributions look-up.

Objections

• Objections under section 199C of the Local Government Act 2002 to development contribution assessments.
• The time taken to process an objection will be charged at the relevant scheduled hourly rate, plus the actual cost of the commissioner(s) and disbursements.
• Time will be charged at the hourly rate applicable at the time the work was carried out.
• If the cost of processing exceeds the Deposit an invoice will be sent for the additional processing fees. Alternatively, the balance of the deposit will be refunded if it is not required for processing.