1. Feasibility & Planning: Weeks 1-4.

We look at your site and provide a thorough assessment against the Council’s District Plan to check zoning rules, contour, access, liquefaction, and potential hazard risks (like flooding or land stability).

2. Resource Consent (Subdivision Consent): Months 2-6.

We book a surveyor who will prepare a “scheme plan” and lodges an application with the local Council. The Council reviews the environmental and community impacts before granting a Resource Consent, usually attached to a list of conditions.

3. The Build Process & Civil Works: Months 6-12.

With approvals sorted, contractors move onto the site. This physical build phase involves:

• Earthworks & Retaining: Levelling land, and creating level building platforms.
• Civil Infrastructure: Digging trenches and laying the pipes for wastewater and stormwater.
• Service Connections: Bringing power, telecommunications, and fresh water lines from the street boundary to the new lot.
• Accessway Construction: Pouring concrete or laying asphalt for shared driveways and forming the legal vehicle crossing onto the public road.

4. Section 223 & 224(c) Certificates: Months 12-14.

Once physical work is complete, the surveyor submits the final survey dataset. Council checks it against the original consent. They issue the s223 certificate (approving the boundaries) and the s224(c) certificate (confirming all physical conditions have been met).

5. LINZ & Title Lodgment: Months 14-16.

Your lawyer and surveyor submit the signed-off certificates and plans to Land Information New Zealand (LINZ). LINZ updates the public register and issues your brand-new legal Records of Title.