May 2019 newsletter

Update from our teams

The Building Team is currently going through a process of integrating the Planning and Engineering Officers (PEOs) into the team. The aim is to have the PEOs and the Building Review Officers (BROs) combined into one role. This change will give the team more flexibility in terms of processing consents and provide cover for leave and sickness.

The Resource Consent team continue to be busy with applications being lodged for developments across the district. Getting through all this work is a team of approximately 40 people and in the past six months we have had a few staff changes.
View these changes here.

Staff profile, meet our team:

Terrence Hayes

Terrence worked at a nearby council as a Building Review Officer and prior to that was employed as an architectural draftsman. He is the chairman for the BOINZ (Building Officials Institute of New Zealand) Waikato/BOP branch, tasked with providing quarterly training days for its members.

David Samson

Born and bred in Hamilton, David is a qualified builder by trade. After living in Australia for six years he returned to Hamilton and spent time working in the Building Unit at the Thames Coromandel District Council and the Hamilton City Council before starting at the Waikato District Council.

Processing statistics

Click here to see the latest numbers for resource consent and building consent applications, LIM applications and Duty Planner requests.

What's happening: Pokeno Nutritional Park

Resource consent has been granted to construct and operate a Nutritional Facility with an Industry Park concept within the Light Industrial Zone, Pokeno.
To find out about other happenings around the district, go here.

Process focus:

Changes to fees and charges
On 1 July Council will be implementing the second year's fees and charges as stated in Council's Fees and Charges booklet.

Consulting with Council's Asset Managers and Pre Application Service
Can be found here

Changes to be aware of

Deadline extended for further submissions on Proposed Waikato District Plan

Council has extended the deadline for making a ‘further submission’ on the Proposed Waikato District Plan (Stage 1) while it reviews and corrects omissions from the Summary of Submissions it issued last month.

Find out more here.

Helpful tips

You’ll find the following helpful tips here:

Things to look out for during the 223/224c subdivision process.
Council has some discretion in accepting changes to the size in Lots however, be mindful that an applicant may need to apply for a s127 or apply for a new consent to have changes accepted.
NZ Geotechnical Database
The NZ Geotechnical Database is available to professional engineering companies and can be found here.

Reasons for failing the final inspection can be viewed here.

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