Building consents · Stats NZ figures to September 2026
Building consents in Point Howard
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 Point Howard, 4 new homes were consented in the same year. Below: 39 consents we hold in Point Howard, 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 Point Howard’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 Point Howard
Stats NZ’s new dwellings for the statistical area Point Howard sits in (Eastern Bays) — the suburb is smaller than one. In the year to September 2026: 2 houses, 1 townhouses and units, 1 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 Point Howard
Individual building consents we hold, each on its property: 39 from 1 Aug 2019 to 1 Jun 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.
- Alterations and additions6
2 in the last 12 months · typically $123k
- Decks, pergolas and verandahs4
1 in the last 12 months · typically $43k
- Repairs, recladding and strengthening3
typically $35k
- Fires and heating3
typically $5,500
- Insulation2
typically $6,341
- Plumbing, drainage and wastewater1
typically $12k
- Pools and spas1
typically $100k
- Garages, sheds and carports1
typically $40k
Consents on record by month
The last three years. A recent dip is often records still to arrive.
Largest in the last 12 months
- $45kRbw - housing (detached dwg) - internal renovation for new kitchen & scullery, new wall between study & new scullery, feature light well over new scullery 61-63 Howard Road
- $25kDemolishing the existing small deck, replacing it with a new one, & extending it. 10 Church Lane
- $8,000Construction of an additional bathrm within the existing building envelope. No changes to the external footprint, height, or structure of the building. The new bathrm will include a toilet, shower 7 Howard Road
39 consents
- Alterations and additions$8,000
Construction of an additional bathrm within the existing building envelope. No changes to the external footprint, height, or structure of the building. The new bathrm will include a toilet, shower
- Decks, pergolas and verandahs$25k
Demolishing the existing small deck, replacing it with a new one, & extending it.
- Alterations and additions$45k
Rbw - housing (detached dwg) - internal renovation for new kitchen & scullery, new wall between study & new scullery, feature light well over new scullery
- Repairs, recladding and strengthening$53k
Rbw - housing (multi-unit dwg) - partial repiling of the dwg, additional braces & bearers, remediation of the deck to have a balustrade
- Decks, pergolas and verandahs$25k
Housing (detached dwg) - deck extension, additional structural post with sub-floor bracing, new pergola & glazed balustrade
- Pools and spas$100k
Housing (detached dwg) - construct pool & summer room
- Repairs, recladding and strengthening$30k
Rbw - housing (detached dwg) - install new beams & ground screw piles to prop the existing bearer
- Insulation$9,000
Exemption - housing (detached dwg) - insulate walls
- Garages, sheds and carports$40k
Convert gge to 1 x bdrm supplementary unit
- Decks, pergolas and verandahs$60k
Rbw - housing (detached dwg) - remove conservatory with glass roof on first floor, replace with solid wall with extend tile roofing & new skylight
- Insulation$3,682
injected wall insulation into an existing dwg
- Fires and heating$5,696
installation of brand new metro wee rad woodfire.
- Decks, pergolas and verandahs$430k
Rbw - housing (detached dwg) - add/alterations, demolish conservatory & deck, new extension for kitchen, laundry, wardrobe, alterations to bathrm & improved vehicle access
- Alterations and additions$200k
Rbw - housing (detached dwg) proposed single storey accessory building on concrete slab & timber joists with a single cladding type
- Plumbing, drainage and wastewater$12k
Housing - dwg alterations, add toilet & shower to extended laundry room
- Repairs, recladding and strengthening$35k
Rbw - housing (detached dwg) - repairs to sub-floor bracing & posts
- Fires and heating$5,500
Housing � install a new fsf yunca monte woodburner & flue system
- Alterations and additions$25k
Rbw - housing - alterations, upgrade established basement flat
- Fires and heating$5,500
Housing - install a fsf firenzo topaz freestanding woodburner & new flue system
- Alterations and additions$860k
Rbw - housing - add/alterations, construct 2 storey add with ground floor gge
- Alterations and additions$300k
Rbw - housing � alterations; changes to lower level to sunroom space & internal layouts within the same floor area, external pergola to deck & new entrance way to second floor
- Alterations and additions$45k
Rbw - housing - install bi-fold doors to lounge, redesign lounge dining room, new bathrm to upstairs
- Commercial alterations$10k
Housing - alterations, move laundry to workshop, install toilet & hand basin
- Insulation$5,326
Exemption - housing - install retrofit dry fibre cosywall insulation to external walls
- Fires and heating$6,000
Housing - install a fsf metro wee rad woodburner onto existing hearth (replace existing woodburner)
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Questions
How many building consents were issued in Point Howard?
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.