Building consents · Stats NZ figures to September 2026
Commercial building consents in Waterloo
Councils consented $88.6m of non-residential building work in the Lower Hutt City council area in the year to September 2026, down 50% on the year before. Below: 6 commercial consents we hold in Waterloo, 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.
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
Non-residential work since 1991
The value consented each year, in the dollars of the day (not adjusted for inflation).
Commercial consents on record in Waterloo
Individual building consents we hold, each on its property: 6 from 1 Sep 2019 to 1 Apr 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.
- Commercial alterations2
1 in the last 12 months · typically $175k
Consents on record by month
The last three years. A recent dip is often records still to arrive.
Largest in the last 12 months
- $250kRbw - housing (detached dwg) - alt & extend single-storey 3-bdrm dwg to a 4-bdrm, 2-bathrm dwg with office & second living; includes new slab, cladding, roof & joinery 8A Rossiter Avenue
6 consents
- Commercial alterations$250k
Rbw - housing (detached dwg) - alt & extend single-storey 3-bdrm dwg to a 4-bdrm, 2-bathrm dwg with office & second living; includes new slab, cladding, roof & joinery
- Commercial alterations$100k
Rbw - housing (detached dwg) - add, alt entry & office for additional bdrm, add new attached gge
- Commercial alterations$98k
Rbw - res - additions, living room, internal alterations, dining/office, bi-fold doors, extend deck + more
- Commercial alterations$300k
Rbw - res - additions/alterations, extend living room, office, entrance porch, new gge, demolish existing & more
- Fit-outs$80k
Rbw - res - close in deck, reconfigure interior, remove internal beams, bdrm to office, pergola, changes to lean-to (complynz)
- Commercial alterations$46k
Res - new versatile gge & workshop
ResidentialCommercial The dots are this page of the list.
Near Waterloo
Questions
How many building consents were issued in Waterloo?
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.