Building consents · Stats NZ figures to September 2026
Building consents in Waimumu
38 new homes were consented in the Gore District council area in the year to September 2026, down 21% on the year before. They also consented $22.5m of non-residential building work, up 64% on the year before. In the statistical area around Waimumu, 11 new homes were consented in the same year. Below: 21 consents we hold in Waimumu, searchable and on the map.
Stats NZ publishes building consents down to the council, so the official figures on this page are for the Gore District council area, and new homes down to statistical areas, which is how Waimumu’s own count is made.
New homes consented each month
Dwellings in new building consents, Gore District, 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 51 in 2007.
New homes in Waimumu
Stats NZ’s new dwellings for the statistical area Waimumu sits in (Waimumu-Kaiwera) — the suburb is smaller than one. In the year to September 2026: 11 houses, 0 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 — Gore District, 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.
- Education$10.2m
1 building · 1,170 m² new floor area · $4,444/m² new · +790% on the year before
- Factories and industrial$7.7m
3 buildings · 2,966 m² new floor area · $2,141/m² new · +152% on the year before
- Farm buildings$3.2m
25 buildings · 5,032 m² new floor area · $619/m² new · +21% on the year before
- Hostels, boarding houses and prisons$675k
1 building · 206 m² new floor area · $3,277/m² new
- Social, cultural and religious$375k
1 building · 50 m² new floor area · $5,500/m² new · −88% on the year before
- Shops, restaurants and bars$217k
−86% on the year before
- Offices$185k
−74% on the year before
- Warehouses and storage$120k
1 building · 77 m² new floor area · $1,558/m² new · −89% on the year before
Consents on record in Waimumu
Individual building consents we hold, each on its property: 21 from 1 May 2020 to 1 Feb 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.
- New homes5
typically $550k
- Fires and heating4
1 in the last 12 months · typically $5,550
- Alterations and additions1
typically $25k
- Commercial alterations1
typically $15k
Consents on record by month
The last three years. A recent dip is often records still to arrive.
Largest in the last 12 months
- $5,300Fire installation - freestanding Kaituna pedestal wood burner onconcrete floor of shed 287 Lady Charlton Road
21 consents
- Fires and heating$5,300
Fire installation - freestanding Kaituna pedestal wood burner onconcrete floor of shed
- New homes$600k
4 bdrm dwg with attached gge
- Alterations and additions$25k
Remove existing bath & add new wet floor style shower
- Fires and heating$5,800
Fire installation - inbuilt masport le4000 insert woodburner
- Commercial alterations$15k
Add toilet. Workshop tub. Gas hot water & internal walls to alpine shed
- Fires and heating$1
Change of cladding. Revised bracing & fireplace removed
- New homes$550k
New 3 bdrm dwg with attached carport
- New homes$500k
New three bdrm dwg & new three bay shed
- New homes$580k
Construct new 2 bdrm dwg consisting of a concrete floor slab. Timber framed walls with timber roof trusses. Cemintel territory exterior cladding & coloursteel endura roof cladding with plasterboard interior wall linings
- New homes$316k
5 bdrm house with 2 types of cladding. 2 x 25000 water tank for house & 1 x 25000 water for fenz.
- Fires and heating$8,500
To install a ferrolli diesel boiler with a vertical flue with a dektite on a shed for the flue. There will be a 450l diesel tankwith a fire valve & the tank will be bolted down to concrete. Therewill be 8 radiators around the house with smoke alarm
- Plumbing, drainage and wastewater$20k
Waste water effluent system
- Fires and heating$6,106
Install a yunca monte multi fuel fire with flue & flue guard onexisting hearth
- Alterations and additions$13k
Install a dbvo26 grant vortex diesel condensing boiler 26kw toexisting hydronic heating system & a 503 litre diesel tank
- Garages, sheds and carports$18k
Construct a 8m x 8m enclosed gge kitset
- Fires and heating$4,000
Remove woodsman Brunner fire & replace with fisher denniston multifuel fire
- Alterations and additions$65k
Renovation of bathrm including tiled wet floor showers
- Plumbing, drainage and wastewater$2,000
To install new toilet in existing bathrm
- New commercial buildings$680k
To construct single storey dwg consisting of three bedrooms two bathrooms office kitchen/dining living & attached dbl gge
- Fires and heating$4,900
Remove existing fire & install a yunca monte base wood burner. Flue & flue guard
- New homes$230k
New single storey residence with attached carport & new fire place
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Near Waimumu
Questions
How many building consents were issued in Waimumu?
In the year to September 2026, Stats NZ counted 38 new homes consented in the Gore District council area, with $25.1m of residential and $22.5m 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.