| Planning application and monitoring fees |
Charges |
| Land Use Applications - Non-Notified |
| Controlled, Restricted Discretionary, Discretionary and Non-complying Activities |
As per hourly rate/actual cost |
| Unit Title Subdivisions (excluding section 5(1)(g) Certification), cross-lease, boundary adjustment* and amalgamation |
As per hourly rate/actual cost |
| Commissioners |
As per hourly rate/actual cost |
| * Boundary Adjustment excludes the signing of any subsequent certificates to complete the boundary adjustment |
| Other Applications - fixed fee unless otherwise stated |
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Overseas Investment Certificate
Deemed permitted activity application under section 87BA or 87BB of the RMA#
Sale of Liquor - Section 100(f) (RMA & Building Code) |
$893.00 |
Right of Way Approvals/Amendment/Cancellation
Alteration/Cancellation of a Building Restriction Line^
Removal of Covenant^
Creation/Amendment/Cancellation of Easement
Cancellation of Amalgamation Condition |
$893.00 |
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Amendment or Cancellation of a Consent notice^
Application for Esplanade Waiver^
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As per hourly
rate/actual cost |
Outline plan of work and waivers^
Notice of requirement for Designation^
All Designation alterations
Designation Removals^ |
As per hourly rate/actual cost |
| E-Dealing Authority and Instruction/Resigning |
$225.00 |
# If issued as a result of a building consent application, charge recorded against BC as actual time and cost
^ These charges are exclusive of the fee for E-dealing Authority and Instruction |
| Section 223 and 224 Certification |
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Freehold (including boundary adjustments)
Unit Title Subdivisions - Section 223 and 224
Section 32(2)(a) certification |
As per hourly rate/actual cost |
| Direct Referral |
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| Direct referral on Notified Application and Requirements |
As per hourly rate/actual cost |
| General |
Charges |
| Combined landuse and subdivision consents lodged non-notified (processed as a combined application) |
As per hourly rate/actual cost |
| Cancellation or variation of consent conditions s127 |
As per hourly rate/actual cost |
| Certificate of compliance including amendment to Cross-Lease, existing use (s139), outline plan, extension of lapse date (S125 and S126) |
As per hourly rate/actual cost |
| Consent transfer or surrender |
As per hourly rate/actual cost |
| For objections under s357 of the RMA, where an objection is to be considered by a hearings commissioner, the cost of considering and making a decision on the objection will be charged as follows: |
| Commissioner(s) |
As per hourly rate/actual cost |
| Council staff time |
As per hourly rate/actual cost |
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Pre-Application Meetings
A non-refundable fee will apply to all requests for a pre-application advice. This fee provides for up to three hours of a planner's time (review of supplied documents, attending meeting (if required)).
Any additional technical expertise requested/required for the pre-application meeting will be on-charged at the prescribed hourly rate; as will any planner's time additional to the three hours provided for within the initial fee.
Includes any administrative time, the actual meeting time and includes discussing concepts, preliminary designs, proposed projects, rule assessments, applications ready to be lodged, specialists etc.
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$860.00 |
Duty planner advice
Includes all general enquiries received and responded to. There will be no cost incurred over the first hour (one hour free). Once responding to or addressing an enquiry exceeds this first free hour, the applicants may continue their enquiry via a pre-application meeting process, with costs as outlined above. |
No charge (refer to note) |
Invoicing
Invoices will be issued based on the costs to date at the following milestones (as applicable):
- When a decision is made to notify an application (limited or public)
- If an applicant (or their agent) requests that the application be put on hold
- Upon issuing of a decision in relation to the application
Note that in some instances, invoices may also be issued on an interim basis, subject to discussion with the applicant. |
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| Monitoring fees |
Charges |
| These fees are additional to the processing costs associated with every resource consent that requires monitoring of conditions and is a non-refundable fixed fee. The monitoring administration fee will be charged at the time the consent is issued, and the initial inspection fee included if an inspection is required. Any additional monitoring, investigation and inspection time will be charged when the monitoring has been carried out, at the specified hourly rate. |
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| All Applications |
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| Monitoring administration associated consent ^ |
$131.00 |
| Initial site visit/monitoring ^ |
$357.00 |
| Additional site inspections, investigation, monitoring administration, specialist, consultant fees, travel etc.* ^ |
As per hourly rate/actual cost |
| Issuing of an Abatement notice in relation to an activity subject to a Resource Consent. |
$350.00 |
^ To be charged on land use and subdivision consents separately, including variation/change to consent conditions
* The Council will recover additional costs from the consent holder if more than one inspection, or additional monitoring activities
(including those relating to non-compliance with consent conditions), are required. Additional charges will apply based on the hourly rate below and/or actual costs of specialists or consultants involved. |
| Noise Control |
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| Fee payable by the occupier of a premises who applies to Council for property that has been seized and impounded after the issue of an Excessive Noise Direction notice |
$249.00 |
| Fee payable by the occupier of a premises who applies to Council for property that has been seized and impounded after the issue of an Abatement Notice |
$298.00 |
| Noise measurement/monitoring (per hour) |
$260.00 |
| General |
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| Compliance with any National Environmental Standard (where provided for) |
As per hourly rate/actual cost |
| Tree monitoring - monitoring activities to be charged, regardless of whether the tree related conditions are contained within a separate “tree” specific consent or within a building, land use or subdivision consent.* |
As per hourly rate/actual cost |
| * For clarity, this does not relate to monitoring activities where the works are not ancillary to a principal activity, such as construction, earthworks or sediment control. Instead, these only relate to monitoring activities where tree related works are ancillary to a principal activity, such as earthworks underneath the dripline of a notable tree, and/or sediment controls which may affect a notable tree, and/or construction of a building or structure within the dripline of a tree or a subdivision that may affect a notable tree. |
| Plan Change / Heritage Orders |
Charges |
| Request for Heritage Order and/or Private Plan Change under First Schedule of the Resource Management Act 1991 |
As per hourly rate/actual cost |
| Tauranga City Plan |
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| There is no hard copy updating service for the operative Tauranga City Plan. All access to the Tauranga City Plan will be by electronic means through the Tauranga City Council website. This is free of charge and will provide access to all updated City Plan and Plan Change information. Hard copies may be inspected at the Council’s customer service centre and at all public libraries. Copying of the City Plan provisions can be undertaken upon request in the normal manner at the customer service centre. |
| Disbursements |
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| Council disbursements (mileage, copying, postage, etc.) may also form part of the costs incurred and may also be invoiced to an applicant on an actual cost basis. |
| Asset Development Fees |
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| An Asset Development Fee is charged where an application presents an effect on Council infrastructural assets or where it is proposed to vest assets in Council as part of the development. In this case, the application is also assessed by Council’s Development Engineering team. The Asset Development Fee shall be charged on an actual time and cost basis. |
| Applications Lodged With The Environmental Protection Agency |
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| Planning and specialist reports, charged at actual cost plus actual time and cost for administration. Expert evidence/advice charged at actual cost plus 10% administration fee. Legal fees charged at actual cost. |
| Planning Staff Fees |
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The time taken to process an application (including any pre-application time, providing advice, additional queries from applicant etc.) and to undertake associated post-consent work and monitoring will be charged at the relevant scheduled hourly rate, plus the actual cost of any external specialists consultants/commissioners and disbursements. Time will be charged at the hourly rate applicable at the time the work was carried out. A minimum charge of 15 min will be applied as a starting point.
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| Staff Hourly Rates |
Charges |
| Technical Level 3 - Manager, Legal services |
$314.00 |
| Technical Level 2 - Senior Planner, Development Planner, Principal Planner, Team Leader, Senior Environmental Monitoring Officer, Specialist, Advisor |
$244.00 |
| Technical Level 1 - Graduate Planner, Planner, Intermediate Planner, Environmental Monitoring Officers |
$230.00 |
| Administration - Administrators, technicians, co-ordinators |
$131.00 |
| Development Engineer |
$268.00 |
- The particular technical hourly rate level is determined by staff competency levels.
- Position titles vary across Council.
- Where the cost of the external resource involved does not exceed the TCC staff rate, external resource(s) will be charged at the senior/intermediate rate.
- Where the cost of the external resource involved exceed the TCC rates, it will be charged at cost.
- External resources may be engaged to address either expertise or capacity that is not available internally.
Debt recovery
Where the Council has issued an invoice for the payment of any fee or charge and the amount invoiced has not been paid by the stated due date on the invoice, the Council may commence debt recovery action.
The Council reserves the right to charge interest, payable from the date the debt became due, and recover costs incurred in pursuing recovery of the debt on a solicitor/client basis as outlined in the Fees and Charges Schedule.
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| City and Infrastructure Planning Fees |
Charges |
| City Planning fees below are based on a cost recovery model taking into account the band-based roles, the productive working hours plus overhead allocation |
Per hour |
| Planners |
$225.00 |
| Policy Planners |
$225.00 |
| Senior Planning Engineers & Modellers |
$264.00 |
| Team Leader: Planning & Modelling |
$303.00 |
| Manager City Infrastructure Planning |
$357.00 |