Before submitting an application or providing information, please take the time to make sure all of the information is relevant, correct and complete.

Whether the application is for a building consent or code compliance certificate there is still a requirement for it to be complete before we can accept it for processing. Incomplete applications cause delays.  Application documents must be legible and plans drawn to a relevant scale.

Complete building consent application

Firstly, get a building consent application pack specific for your project online from the DCC website.

Checklists, included in the application pack, will assist you with the preparation of your application; they ensure that the right information and documentation is provided with your building consent application.

Depending on the scope of work, you may be required to submit supporting documentation such as:

• Site and drainage plans and specifications

• Floor plans for each level, cross sections

• Foundation designs

• Elevations with ground lines, finished floor levels & height planes shown

• Roof, wall, floor and sub floor framing and bracing designs

• Impervious surface information

• Producer statements, design certificates

• Risk matrix

• Design memorandum for restricted building work or statutory declarations for home owner exemptions

• Relevant construction detail (flashings, connections, bracing calculations, cladding information, truss & barrier designs)

• Smoke alarm information

• Fire report

• Heater and flue instructions (solid fuel burners)

• Specified system forms (completed) with supporting performance standards, inspection, maintenance and reporting procedures

If you are not familiar with building plans and compliance with the Building Code you may need to engage a design professional to supply the required drawings and information and apply for a building consent on your behalf.

The application form, also included in the pack, must be completed in full and all the relevant information provided.

Guidance on how to complete an application form is available online.

Useful information about applying for a building consent can be downloaded from the Ministry of Business Innovation & Employment (MBIE) website. 

Complete code compliance certificate application

The application form must be completed and all supporting information provided before we can accept and process an application for code compliance certificate.

Guidance on how to complete an application form (see attachment below) is available to assist you with completing the relevant sections of the form.

Depending on the scope of work, you may be required to submit supporting documentation such as:

• Producer statements for construction/peer review

• Records of work for restricted building work

• Energy works and compliance certificates

• Evidence that specified systems are capable of performing to the performance standards

• Certificates for registered tradesman who carried out the work 
  

Agent Details

This section of the building consent and code compliance certificate application forms must be completed if the application is being made on behalf of the owner.

Please make sure the nature of the relationship to the owner is stated on the form. We may ask for supporting authorisation if there is any level of doubt.