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The Christchurch City Council is responsible for issuing building consents within Christchurch and Banks Peninsula.
Due to receiving a large number of building consent applications, processing your application may start later than normal.
To help with processing your application, please ensure you:
- correctly load documents via online services.
- promptly reply to any requests for information, including a covering letter explaining what you did and with clouds around drawings and text to indicate revisions.
- provide a complete application and the relevant pages only when applying for a minor variation. Please cloud the changes and remove any council stamps, if applicable.
Contact us if you have any concerns.
A building consent is a formal approval to undertake building work in accordance with approved plans and specifications. A building consent establishes that your proposed building work complies with the building code.
After we have issued the building consent we undertake inspections during construction and issue a code compliance certificate when the building work is all completed.
Customer complaints policy
The processes and procedures for submitting queries, concerns or complaints about our building control functions.