I recently looked at the latest review of the Building Act 2004. Part of those
reforms widened the range of building work that does not require a building
consent, but before looking at the exemptions there are a couple of important
points to clarify.
A building
consent should not be confused with a resource consent. Just because a building
may not need a building consent does not mean it may not need a resource consent,
which regulates planning issues.
The second
important point is that even exempt building work must be done to Building Code
standard. So it's not a case of just banging something up - the job needs to be
done properly. Not all building work needs to be done by a registered builder,
but whoever does the work does need to do it to Code.
