Building Consent Authority Accreditation

After months of preparation work, Hauraki District Council is officially a Building Consent Authority (BCA).

The Council was advised of its success early this week and follows a full compliance audit by the Department of Building and Housing.

The Building Consent Authority Accreditation and Registration Scheme is among the Building Act 2004 reforms aimed at ensuring buildings are built right first time and ensures that owners get a quality result for their many building projects.

It focuses on strengthening the building process at the consent processing, inspection and approval stages – ie, making sure that territorial and regional authorities have the appropriate systems, processes, procedures, resources and capability to do the job.

All territorial or regional authorities must be accredited and registered as a building consent authority by 30 June 2008 or have transferred their building control functions to an accredited and registered BCA.

Being a BCA brings with it the responsibility of maintaining standards as we continue to monitor, review and improve our performance. As a BCA, Hauraki District Council can deliver assurances regarding the robustness of the building consent processing and construction to owners and ratepayers

The success of HDC becoming an accredited BCA is a significant milestone for Council and a terrific achievement for the staff involved. Hauraki District Council Mayor John Tregidga said he was very proud of the effort of the Council team responsible for the project and was pleased to meet the deadlines for gaining accreditation. This was achieved by the team while continuing ‘business as usual,’ “It’s been a tremendous effort by all involved and ensures that Hauraki District Council is up there with any other local authority in the country”.


For further information please contact
Mark Buttimore
Hauraki District Council
Ph. 0800 734 834 (from within District) or 07 862 8609