Engineering fees


Council's fees for 2025/26 have been confirmed. [PDF 722 KB]

These come into effect on 1 July 2025

These fees apply in addition to the resource consent deposit fees on the preceding pages. All consents will be subject to compliance monitoring which will be charged on an actual time basis at $179 per hour.

Notified land use consents | Non-notified land use consents | Subdivisions | Notified subdivisions | Monitoring - fee simple or unit title subdivisions | Other subdivisions | Other

Engineering fees: Non-notified land use consents

2024/25 Fee

Commercial/industrial development or infrastructure development - Application deposit fee

$1,074
per application
(includes the first 6 hours, $179 per hour thereafter)

Commercial/industrial development or infrastructure development - Compliance monitoring administration fee

$358
(includes the first 2 hours, $179 per hour thereafter)

Commercial/industrial development or infrastructure development - Engineering drawing approval

$1,611
(includes three submissions of engineering drawings, beyond this will be charged at $179 per hour thereafter)

Commercial/industrial development or infrastructure development - Engineering construction supervision

2%
Determined as 2% of the total estimated value of services (water, sanitary, drainage and road), including engineering and contingency fees
(minimum of $10,500)

Engineering fees: Monitoring

2024/25 Fee

All compliance monitoring including additional land use monitoring is to be charged at an hourly basis for staff time

$179
per hour

Subdivision engineering drawing approval and engineering construction supervision

$716
fixed fee plus per lot deposit
($179 per hour thereafter)

Subdivision engineering drawing approval and engineering construction supervision

$358
per lot deposit

Engineering fees: Other

2024/25 Fee

Objection to decision

$179
per hour

Variation to consent conditions

$179
per hour

Plan change applications

$179
per hour

Easement – new/cancellation

$358
Application deposit per application (includes first 2 hours, $179 per hour thereafter)

Specialist consultants

At cost