Useful links
Auckland Council – Landowner Approval
People or groups who want to use council-owned land for anything from commercial purposes to access for a construction site will need landowner approval. Landowner approval generally involves parks or reserves but can include all council facilities.
Auckland Council consents, building and renovation projects
Contains information and advice on getting started on a project, building and resource consents, building issues and legislation, and land, infrastructure and permitted activities.
Watercare Limited – Network capacity in Auckland
Information on capacity in our water and wastewater networks and treatment plants to support new housing, and where there are capacity limitations. Watercare
Veolia – Water and Wastewater in Papakura
Veolia operates the retail water and wastewater infrastructure in Papakura under a Franchise Agreement with Watercare Services. This includes planning, design and construction of new infrastructure.
Auckland Council Development Contributions Policy 2025
Information on contribution charges for new development and links to all Development Contributions Policy 2025 documents. These explain How council will fund infrastructure for growth, what assets the contribution charges will fund and how we set development contribution charges.
Auckland Council Development Contributions – estimator tool
An estimator tool to help with your planning. Please note cost of water and wastewater infrastructure is charged directly by Veolia Water (Papakura) or Watercare Services Limited (rest of Auckland)
Auckland Transport – Code of Practice
ATCOP is a guide for anyone involved in developing and maintaining transport infrastructure in Auckland, ranging from small housing developments to complex public infrastructure.
Auckland Council – The Auckland Unitary Plan
Auckland Unitary Plan guides the use of Auckland’s natural and physical resources, including land development.
Auckland Council – GeoMaps mapping service
Find out what rules apply to your property with Auckland Council’s GeoMaps Goegraphic Information System (GIS) viewer. It contains spatial and non-spatial information from across Tāmaki Makaurau Auckland.
Auckland Council – The Auckland Plan 2050
Our long-term spatial plan for Auckland looks ahead to 2050. It consideres how we will address our key challenges of high population growth, shared prosperity, and environmental degradation.
Auckland Council – Auckland Design Manual
This free resource supports everyone from designers to developers to do-it-yourself’ers to build a better, more sustainable Tāmaki Makaurau / Auckland, with access to all the information you need to design and build well in Tāmaki Makaurau, including regulations, resources, advice and inspiration for your project.
Auckland Council – Auckland Growth Scenario 2023 v 1.1
Auckland Council maintains a ‘growth scenario’ to inform and coordinate investment decision-making across the council group, external partners and stakeholders across the region. The growth scenario informs policy and investment decisions, including the Long-term plan, various asset management plans and the Development Contributions Policy. Auckland Growth Scenario 2023 (AGS23) is the current growth scenario. It provides household, population and employment projections over a 30-year period from 2022 to 2052 (June year)
Auckland Council – Future Development Strategy
The Future Development Strategy (FDS) is Auckland’s long-term approach to growth and development. It sets out how Auckland will grow and change over the next 30 years.
Auckland Council – Structure Plans
Structure plans are a method of guiding future urbanisation, and development, within a defined area. They establish land use and infrastructure networks and identify the potential effect of urbanisation. From this landing page, structure plans can be accessed for Drury-Opāheke, Silverdale West Dairy Flat Industrial Area, Warkworth, Whenuapai, Pukekohe-Paerata and Spatial Land Use Strategies.
Auckland Council – Premium service for resource consents
Our premium service is a tailored project management system for complex developments that need a higher level of council support and management through resource consent, engineering approval and compliance processes.
Auckland Council – Fast-track approvals
Auckland Council does not make decisions on fast-track applications, a process for projects with national and regional importance. An expert consenting panel appointed by the EPA makes all decisions, however we play an important part in the process – find out more about our role at this link.
Auckland Council – Qualified Partner Service
The Qualified Partner Service is a relationship-based service between the council and developers involved in large programmes of building work. It involves working together to improve the quality of consent applications and construction.
Industry Associations:
Urban Development Institute of New Zealand (UDINZ)