Professional partnership programme (PPP)

This programme partners with industry professionals to fast track qualifying residential dwelling consents which are considered to have a low risk for Council receiving any claims.

Industry professional can be:

• designers and builders operating on their own, or
• building companies who apply for building consents with us.

Programme purpose

Our aim is to:

• Speed up the consent process by standardising how information is presented to us
• Rely on experienced LBPs to comply with the Building Act and building code requirements by acknowledging the maturity of the Licensed Building Practitioner (LBP) scheme
• Help the building sector continue to thrive and support population growth in Selwyn by processing consents that meet the application criteria faster^* than applications not part of this programme.

Application criteria

Fast track applications must meet the following criteria:

• be a new build of R2 complexity (‘or less*), and
• a single detached dwelling, and
• located on fully serviced sites within subdivisions, and
• fully meet all district plan requirements, with no resource consent approvals needed from the territorial authority, and
• not need any approvals from the regional authority.

* ‘or less’ means R1 complexity buildings – eg

• unlined garages with no services,
• rural pole/portal sheds with no services, and
• solid fuel burners.

Note – not all your building consent applications may meet this criteria – so where they don’t you’ll need to continue to submit them as a standard application.

Benefits for you

• Time savings – we’ll focus on the higher risk elements of your application
• Cost savings over time if you continue to meet the criteria and expectations – see information under partner incentives
• We’ll identify you as an approved building partner on our website so customers can see who our partners are and select their designer/company on this basis if they want.

Our partners