How much will it cost?
The Resource Management Act allows Regional Councils to recover all reasonable costs associated with the processing of a consent. The West Coast Regional Council's procedure is to require a minimum deposit before the consent process begins, with any additional cost being invoiced at the end of the process. For complex applications, monthly invoices may be used. When making a consent application contact the Consents section of the West Coast Regional Council for an estimate of costs associated with your application.
There is no annual charge associated with holding most resource consents. The exception is whitebait stands that have an annual administration charge.
Some consents will require on going monitoring by the council and costs associated with this compliance monitoring will be recovered from the Consent Holder.
For more information about the costs of a resource consent, click here to download an extract from the 2006-2016 LTCCP (PDF, 77.3KB)
