Building consents · Stats NZ figures to September 2026
Building consents in Cornwallis
17,131 new homes were consented in the Auckland council area in the year to September 2026, up 16% on the year before. They also consented $3.37b of non-residential building work, up 5% on the year before. In the statistical area around Cornwallis, 1 new homes were consented in the same year. Below: 8 consents we hold in Cornwallis, searchable and on the map.
Stats NZ publishes building consents down to the council, so the official figures on this page are for the Auckland council area, and new homes down to statistical areas, which is how Cornwallis’s own count is made.
New homes consented each month
Dwellings in new building consents, Auckland, the last five years.
Since 1991: houses and everything else
New homes consented each year, houses against townhouses, flats, units, apartments and retirement village units. The most in one year was 21,301 in 2022.
New homes in Cornwallis
Stats NZ’s new dwellings for the statistical area Cornwallis sits in (Waitākere Ranges South) — the suburb is smaller than one. In the year to September 2026: 0 houses, 1 townhouses and units, 0 apartments.
Non-residential building work each month
The value of new and altered non-residential buildings consented — offices, shops, factories, warehouses, farm buildings, schools, hospitals — Auckland, the last five years.
What is being built
Non-residential building work consented in the year to September 2026, by type: the value of new and altered work, new floor area, and what new floor area cost to build per square metre.
- Offices$753m
43 buildings · 26,927 m² new floor area · $8,567/m² new · −24% on the year before
- Warehouses and storage$631m
84 buildings · 233,139 m² new floor area · $2,450/m² new · +9% on the year before
- Education$590m
77 buildings · 54,555 m² new floor area · $8,792/m² new · +4% on the year before
- Factories and industrial$402m
44 buildings · 21,405 m² new floor area · $14,113/m² new · −5% on the year before
- Shops, restaurants and bars$307m
32 buildings · 40,270 m² new floor area · $4,291/m² new · +19% on the year before
- Hospitals and health$219m
29 buildings · 19,980 m² new floor area · $6,216/m² new · +41% on the year before
- Hostels, boarding houses and prisons$197m
11 buildings · 25,285 m² new floor area · $7,276/m² new · +218% on the year before
- Social, cultural and religious$167m
29 buildings · 11,019 m² new floor area · $3,823/m² new · +62% on the year before
- Hotels and motels$75.4m
17 buildings · 13,619 m² new floor area · $3,956/m² new · +37% on the year before
- Farm buildings$26.2m
121 buildings · 68,341 m² new floor area · $353/m² new · +4% on the year before
Consents on record in Cornwallis
Individual building consents we hold, each on its property: 8 from 1 Sep 2020 to 1 Mar 2026. Councils publish their records unevenly, so these are what we have, not every consent issued — for the full count, see the official figures above.
What the work is
Consents in the last five years by the kind of work their description names.
- Fires and heating6
1 in the last 12 months · typically $4,996
- Alterations and additions1
typically $450k
Consents on record by month
The last three years. A recent dip is often records still to arrive.
Largest in the last 12 months
- $5,406Install new fire & flue (maxen kinmont 350-w) 69 Cornwallis Road
8 consents
- Fires and heating$5,406
Install new fire & flue (maxen kinmont 350-w)
- Fires and heating$4,000
Sfh fixed fee - installation of new freestanding wood burner fire (metro rad one)
- Alterations and additions$450k
Rbw: Ground floor changes include internal reconfiguration to accomodate a laundry, relocation of existing bathrm & associated drainage, larger rumpus area a
- Fires and heating$4,500
Sfh - installation of solid wood burner masport r3000 ped, replacing existing solid fuel & flue.
- Fires and heating$40k
Rbw - reposition walls to install a new wood fireplace in the sun lounge area & removed the side louver window in the sun lounge area.
- Fires and heating$4,996
dbc - installation of solid fuel heating appliance (woodsman serene petite)
- Fires and heating$4,995
installation of solid wood burner (jayline spitfire)
- New homes$700k
Rbw - new 173 square metre two-storey dwg on timber piles
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Near Cornwallis
Questions
How many building consents were issued in Cornwallis?
In the year to September 2026, Stats NZ counted 17,131 new homes consented in the Auckland council area, with $8.53b of residential and $3.37b of non-residential building work.
What is a building consent?
Written approval from a council (a building consent authority) that planned building work complies with the Building Code. Most new buildings, additions, structural alterations, fires and plumbing and drainage work need one; some minor work is exempt under Schedule 1 of the Building Act 2004.
Where do these figures come from?
The official counts are Stats NZ’s monthly Building consents issued release (CC BY 4.0), covering every consent every council issues. The individual consents listed are ones we hold from councils’ records and other public sources; they are not a complete list for every council.