Building consents · Stats NZ figures to September 2026
Building consents in Melling
432 new homes were consented in the Lower Hutt City council area in the year to September 2026, down 8% on the year before. They also consented $88.6m of non-residential building work, down 50% on the year before. In the statistical area around Melling, 1 new homes were consented in the same year. Below: 6 consents we hold in Melling, searchable and on the map.
Stats NZ publishes building consents down to the council, so the official figures on this page are for the Lower Hutt City council area, and new homes down to statistical areas, which is how Melling’s own count is made.
New homes consented each month
Dwellings in new building consents, Lower Hutt City, 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 1,369 in 2022.
New homes in Melling
Stats NZ’s new dwellings for the statistical area Melling sits in (Alicetown-Melling) — the suburb is smaller than one. In the year to September 2026: 1 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 — Lower Hutt City, 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$32m
11 buildings · 4,119 m² new floor area · $4,106/m² new · −39% on the year before
- Factories and industrial$16.2m
6 buildings · 1,477 m² new floor area · $7,888/m² new · +638% on the year before
- Shops, restaurants and bars$15.3m
2 buildings · 385 m² new floor area · $4,883/m² new · +111% on the year before
- Offices$11.6m
3 buildings · 745 m² new floor area · $4,799/m² new · +78% on the year before
- Hospitals and health$5.4m
−94% on the year before
- Social, cultural and religious$4m
3 buildings · 158 m² new floor area · $6,646/m² new · −57% on the year before
- Hotels and motels$2.5m
1 building · 508 m² new floor area · $3,543/m² new
- Hostels, boarding houses and prisons$760k
−60% on the year before
- Warehouses and storage$617k
−87% on the year before
- Farm buildings$215k
2 buildings · 325 m² new floor area · $662/m² new · +95% on the year before
Consents on record in Melling
Individual building consents we hold, each on its property: 6 from 1 Sep 2019 to 1 Apr 2023. 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.
- Alterations and additions1
typically $20k
Consents on record by month
The last three years. A recent dip is often records still to arrive.
6 consents
- Alterations and additions$20k
Rbw - housing (detached dwg) - removal of internal load bearing wall to create an open plan kitchen/dining/living space
- Fires and heating$3,800
Housing � install a fsf masport r3000 woodburner on to existing hearth
- Minor dwellings and sleepouts$60k
Rbw - res - convert living room to bdrm & ensuite, rumpus to dining, add bathrm to sleepout
- Alterations and additions$12k
Res - alterations, convert laundry into bathrm, relocate laundry to gge
- Alterations and additions$80k
Rbw - res - alterations, laundry - new bathrm, extend existing bathrm, convert study into new ensuite, windows + more
- New homes$350k
New three bdrm dwg with attached dbl gge, living / dining / kitchen, wc, bathrm & ensuite timber framed walls & roof framing on rib raft concrete slab. brick veneer & bgc nuline weatherboard wall claddings, metal tile roofing
ResidentialCommercial The dots are this page of the list.
Near Melling
Questions
How many building consents were issued in Melling?
In the year to September 2026, Stats NZ counted 432 new homes consented in the Lower Hutt City council area, with $176m of residential and $88.6m 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.