When You Need a Building Consent
A building consent may be required if you’re constructing a new building, making alterations to your home or any other buildings on your property.
Work requiring a building consent includes:
- The change of use of a building where this requires building work
- New buildings, additions, alterations, accessory buildings (sheds), and re-piling
- Plumbing and drainage
- Demolition or relocation of existing structures
- Heating (solid fuel fireplaces), ventilation and air-conditioning systems
- Site works
- Retaining walls higher than 1.5m
- Retaining walls less than 1.5m that provide support for buildings, driveways or sloping ground
- Fences higher than 2m (timber) or 1.5m (concrete)
- Swimming pools and large tanks
- Decks more than 1m from ground level
- Any building, no matter how small, that is to be used for sleeping purposes.
Call Building Control Unit on 07 306 0500 to find out if your building or plumbing work requires building consent.