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  • Service connections (SCA)
  • Development Works Approval (DWA)
  • Development Engineering
  • Development contributions
  • Infrastructure Development Code
  • Tauranga City Plan
  • City centre development
  • New community: Tauriko West
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  • Food
  • Health
  • Using public places
  • Trade waste
  • Building consents
  • Resource consents
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  • Coast Care
  • Education programmes
  • Wastewater overflow notifications
  • Environmental volunteering
  • Bird Flu - What you need to know
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  • Mercury Baypark
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  • Education programmes
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Building and development/Building and Resource consents/Commercial buildings

Commercial buildings

What you need to know about building a commercial building.

  • Building Warrant of Fitness
    Find out more about a building warrant of fitness and if your building needs one.
  • Certificate for Public Use
    A certificate for public use is needed for those wishing to have premises safe for the public.
  • Multi-Residential, industrial and commercial consents
    Most commercial, public or multi-residential buildings have additional consent requirements.
  • Specified systems and performance standards guidance
    Guidance on specified systems.
  • Building forms, guidance and reports
    Forms, guidance and reports related to your project and what you may need to supply Council.
  • Making processing consents easier
    If we can find the information easily, it can deduce requests for information.
  • Building Account Management Service
    Our Building Account Management Service helps developers and other customers navigate Council's regulatory processes.
  • Change of use, alterations and extensions of life
    If you're making alterations to an existing building, section 112 of the Building Act 2004 has to be considered.
  • Earthquake prone buildings
    Tauranga’s Earthquake Prone Building Policy was adopted in March 2006. It focuses on buildings that were built before 1976 that have 33% or less of the strength current building code standards.
  • Tauranga Urban Design Panel
    The Tauranga Urban Design Panel provides free independent design review of built environment projects across our city.
  • Meet Bob – your building consent AI agent
    With the growing demand for quick and reliable information, Tauranga City Council has introduced Bob to make building consent information easier to access.
 

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