This Policy document contains the Building Control Group’s regime of fees and charges for the Marlborough region.
- It comes into force on 1 July 2026 and includes:
- All activities carried out by the Building Consent Authority, the Territorial Authority and the Regional Authority.
Building Consent Authority
- Activities that relate to receiving, processing (including amendments) and issuing Building Consent applications.
- Activities that relate to carrying out inspections and on completion of those inspections, processing and issuing the Code Compliance Certificate.
Territorial Authority
- Issuing all notices required under the Building Act.
- Inspection regime for all Residential Swimming Pools.
- Issuing Project Information Memoranda under Building Act.
- Issuing Certificate of Acceptance under Building Act.
- All activities related to Buildings with Specified Life and its Extension, Change of Use of buildings under Building Act.
- All activities related to Consent Exemption under Building Act.
- Perform all functions relating to Dangerous, Affected Insanitary, or Earthquake-prone buildings under Building Act.
- All activities related to Building Warrant of Fitness including the processing, inspecting & issuing of the Compliance Schedule as required under the Building Act.
Regional Authority
- All activities related to Building (Dam Safety) Regulations as required under the Building Act.
The charge out rate of Marlborough District Council staff, for all works relating to our processes, is contained within this Policy, which is available on the Marlborough District Council’s website.
