A building consent is written approval from the Auckland council to carry out specific building work on a specific site, which must comply with current regulations.
A building consent is granted if we are satisfied on reasonable grounds that the building code provisions would be met if the work is properly completed in accordance with the plans and specifications in the application.
There is many steps to the building cosent process which you can find out more about on th there Auckland Councils website here. Reveal can help guide you for all your building consent drawings and spesifications and drastically cut down on your time and money buy getting pre arrpoval to consent.
If a building consent authority refuses to issue a code compliance certificate, the building consent authority must give the applicant written notice of:
More information about a Section 95a in our FAQs
The evidence of the last fifteen to twenty years of the NZ construction industry’s mistakes leads us to one fundamental conclusion: It is better to try and get it right first time rather than re-visit the mistakes later at considerable cost to building owners, tenants, designers, contractors, sub-contractors, councils, government, insurers and lenders.
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