Newsletters
If you would like to be added to our mailing list to receive a copy of our newsletters please email selwyn.talk@selwyn.govt.nz.
Below is a list of useful information we have sent out to our mailing list in the past 12 months:
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Proposed District Plan and Variation 1 decision released - impact of your applications, Update on our workload - inspection & processing timeframes, Feedback, compliments, and complaints, Notional boundaries, and MBIE updates |
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Useful information older than 12 months:
- December 2022 newsletter - Holiday season closedown, update on our workload, H1/AS1 energy efficiency changes, Guidance on high country township design load and weathertightness envelope design, New code of ethics for LBPs, and Building Code updates consultation outcomes [PDF, 582 KB]
- September 2022 newsletter - What's happening out in the market right now, prepare for change to H1 requirements, keeping your home safe against wildfire, update on our workload, meet our new recruits, and new medium density rule considerations for building [PDF, 194 KB]
- July 2022 newsletter - Revision of our recent communication of NZBC E3 internal moisture, post line audits, parking in Selwyn, building consent application documentation, RT information required, and update on our workload [PDF, 209 KB]
- March 2022 newsletter - Update on our workload, discretionary exemptions, clarifications for applications (F5 site fencing and wet area flooring), and issues with residential hold-down systems [PDF, 149 KB]
- February 2022 newsletter - Building consent timeframes, customer satisfaction survey, minor variations & amendments, responding to RFIs, clarification on swimming pool barriers, property flooding potential, tiny home guidance and building for climate change [PDF, 190 KB]
- Building consent timeframes, customer satisfaction survey, minor variations & amendments, responding to RFIs, clarification on swimming pool barriers, property flooding potential, tiny home guidance and building for climate change [PDF, 190 KB]
- Quality of application, contacting us, BCA Accreditation, swimming pool barriers, and Building Code updates [PDF, 239 KB]
- Building consent workload, PIMs, ROWs, supply chain impacts [PDF, 208 KB]
- Fee changes, new recruits, bidet spray backflow, bath cradle internal membrane inspections, and others [PDF, 559 KB]
- Inspection limits, site scape inspections, truss bracing, soakpits and laterals, top plates, PIMs [PDF, 309 KB]
- LBP records of work, Amendment versus a minor variation, Supply supporting documents, Current workload [PDF, 168 KB]
- Supply chain delays impacting completion of buildings [PDF, 132 KB]
- Consent documents onsite and roof valleys [PDF, 188 KB]
- Providing sufficient details with your applications [PDF, 575 KB]
- Covid-19 alert level 2 building department update [PDF, 117 KB]
- Christmas close down period / Christchurch City inspector helping out in Selwyn / working near overhead power lines / save time [PDF, 204 KB]
- Relocated buildings - An overview for owners [PDF, 2117 KB]
- Site scrape inspections [PDF, 121 KB]
- Accessible toilets [PDF, 304 KB]
- Internal Membrane Inspections [PDF, 345 KB]
- Septic Tanks and Effluent Fields [PDF, 104 KB]
- Purlin Spans and HWC Safe Trays [PDF, 136 KB]
- Surface Water, Stormwater, Soak Pit & Driveway Runoff Information [PDF, 842 KB]
- Powerpoint from Customer Information Session: How can you speed up your consent or make sure your inspection gets passed? [PDF, 1565 KB]
- Stormwater & Percolation Testing [PDF, 119 KB]