Departments/LBP knowledge
By Building Practitioner Licensing, MBIE in conjunction with Auckland Council
Resource consent
'must knows'
LBPs are not expected to be experts in the Resource Management
Act 1991, but they should have a good working knowledge of the rules
applying to the land they are working on.
A RESOURCE CONSENT is authorisation
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from your local council to undertake certain
works or activities on a piece of land. These
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works may affect the environment and
natural surroundings (bush, land, water, sky
and animals) or the people and community
limiting on-site hours of works to prevent
Quiz
excessive noise in the community
1. As a builder, I only need to be concerned
certificates from trades such as engineers,
surveyors and drainlayers
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construction and traffic management
plans.
nearby, including heritage considerations,
streetscapes, light and noise.
about the building consent, not the
resource consent. True or false?
2.I am required to comply with resource
consents conditions. True or false?
3.My site may have a resource consent if:
Penalties for non-compliance
Although you may not be the holder of the
Resource consent allows certain work
resource consent, you and all subcontractors
On a construction site, a resource consent
are required to comply with its conditions
may authorise:
a)the works breach a rule in a district or
regional plan
b)large earthworks are required during
the project
while undertaking activity on site. Failure to
c)the dwelling is very close to a boundary
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large-scale earthworks
comply with the conditions can result in your
d)the site is in an identified hazardous or
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a building footprint larger or closer to a
site being shut down, fines and/or court action.
special area, or the environment may be
boundary than the district plan allows
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affected from the activity on site
a new dwelling located in a flood-prone
A few things to do
or contaminated area
Before you start works, obtain a copy of all
4.My subcontractors are required to comply
works in close proximity to a watercourse,
consents from whomever engaged you to
with the resource consent conditions. True
on a steep gradient, in a natural heritage
do the works, and ensure you understand
or false?
area and/or in a coastal environment.
the conditions. Contact your local council
if you have any questions.
Comes with conditions
When you finish a project, make sure you
e)all of the above.
5.Failure to comply with resource consent
conditions may result in:
a)site shutdown
Resource consents come with conditions
review both the resource consent and
b)fines
that reduce the risks to the environment
building consent, and submit any required
c)prosecution
and community. Common conditions for a
documents to council. These may include
d)all of the above.
residential new build may include:
geotechnical reports, survey certificates,
sediment controls, such as silt fences and
drainage plans or any report required under
stabilised entrances
the consent.
Answers:
1. False. 2. True. 3 e) all of the above. 4. True
5. d) all of the above.
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