Pick your project type and what it involves. Get the document set a New Zealand building consent for that project typically needs — forms, plans, producer statements and specs — split into always-expected and triggered-by-your-answers. Tick off what you have to see what's outstanding.
This is the generic checklist. ConsentIQ reads your actual submission and flags what's missing against the request patterns of your specific BCA — drawn from 420,000+ real consent data points — before you lodge. It's the difference between a generic list and knowing this set will clear intake.
Every consent needs the application form (Form 2), evidence of ownership, a site plan, floor plans and a specification. Most building work also needs elevations, cross-sections, foundation and bracing information, and — for thermal work — an H1 energy schedule. This tool adds the rest based on what your project involves.
No — it's a generic New Zealand checklist to sanity-check your set before lodging. Councils (BCAs) have their own emphases and extra requirements. The paid ConsentIQ check reads your submission and flags gaps against your specific council's request patterns.
If your project creates or alters the thermal envelope (external walls, roof, windows or insulation), yes. You can produce the calculation with our free H1 check, or have it read off your drawings by the H1 Calculator.
No. This checks presence, not adequacy — that the documents a consent typically needs are there, not that each satisfies the Building Code. Treat it as a completeness sanity check, not a producer statement.