Canterbury councils taking on extra staff for surging consents
Ashburton builder Sam Millar said waiting times for project green lighting had virtually doubled. “Six months ago, it was about 20 working days and now it’s closer to 40 working days,” he said. The volume of consents being processed currently would also affect the number of site inspections in the coming months. “It’s going to go full circle,” Millar said. Adam Burns/LDR Ashburton builder Sam Millar says new build consent time frames have almost doubled in the past six months. “The amount of work being consented now means inspectors are going to be busy three or four months...
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