Building consents · Stats NZ figures to September 2026
Building consents in Pahiatua
33 new homes were consented in the Tararua District council area in the year to September 2026, up 50% on the year before. They also consented $17.9m of non-residential building work, up 222% on the year before. Below: 380 consents we hold in Pahiatua, searchable and on the map.
Stats NZ publishes building consents down to the council, so the official figures on this page are for the Tararua District council area.
New homes consented each month
Dwellings in new building consents, Tararua 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 71 in 1991.
Non-residential building work each month
The value of new and altered non-residential buildings consented — offices, shops, factories, warehouses, farm buildings, schools, hospitals — Tararua 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.
- Social, cultural and religious$9.5m
1 building · 1,170 m² new floor area · $8,120/m² new · +694% on the year before
- Farm buildings$3m
23 buildings · 4,758 m² new floor area · $511/m² new · +256% on the year before
- Education$2.3m
+7% on the year before
- Offices$1.4m
1 building · 165 m² new floor area · $2,727/m² new
- Factories and industrial$1.3m
+205% on the year before
- Shops, restaurants and bars$349k
1 building · 93 m² new floor area · $1,720/m² new · −46% on the year before
- Hotels and motels$25k
Consents on record in Pahiatua
Individual building consents we hold, each on its property: 380 from 1 Aug 2019 to 1 Oct 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 heating101
32 in the last 12 months · typically $7,000
- Alterations and additions75
19 in the last 12 months · typically $30k
- New homes38
5 in the last 12 months · typically $509k
- Garages, sheds and carports22
4 in the last 12 months · typically $46k
- Multiple homes16
2 in the last 12 months · typically $1.2m
- Plumbing, drainage and wastewater9
4 in the last 12 months · typically $20k
- Repairs, recladding and strengthening7
1 in the last 12 months · typically $28k
- Decks, pergolas and verandahs7
1 in the last 12 months · typically $45k
- Fit-outs4
1 in the last 12 months · typically $125k
- Relocated buildings4
typically $120k
Consents on record by month
The last three years. A recent dip is often records still to arrive.
Largest in the last 12 months
- $2mRbw - building up 5 individual houses & a pair duplicate units on the subject site, all design are based on approved rc. Dbl-storey, 2 bedrooms, a study, kitchen, living & dining, 2 bathrooms. 24 Arthur Street, Pahiatua
- $1.2mNew x4 detached dwgs 27 Paterson Street, Pahiatua
- $700kNew dbl gge with basement works, internal stair, refurbished kitchen with small extension, new verandah, pool fencing for exempt in-ground concrete pool & master bdrm extension with altered 7 Huia Street, Pahiatua
- $500kNew two bdrm dwg with attached two bay shed housing - detached 11 Totara Place, Pahiatua
- $457kConstruction of multi-unit dwg - single storey 51 Wakeman Street, Pahiatua
380 consents
- Alterations and additions$30k
Dwg (additions) - Dwelling Addition Including Wet Floor Shower
- Fires and heating$4,500
Metro Ltd rural xtreme rad leg freestanding fire
- Fires and heating$7,000
Install freestanding wagener butler multi fuel logfire with existing wetback
- Fires and heating$8,000
Metro wee rad freestanding fire
- Fires and heating$8,000
Metro wee rad woody freestanding fire
- Fires and heating$15k
Bathrm alterations & Kent Benmore freestanding fire
- Fires and heating$6,500
Metro wee rad base freestanding fire
- Fires and heating$6,000
F/s woodsman coleridge pedestal uleb sfh
- Alterations and additions$25k
Renovate bathrooms. 1: remove bath, install new shower with house alt/additions
- Garages, sheds and carports$47k
Gge
- Fires and heating$8,000
Free standing fire - metro mega rad ultra freestanding fire with existing wetback
- Fires and heating$7,000
Free standing fire - woodsman Tarras mkiii freestanding fire
- Alterations and additions$5,000
R1 - convert storeroom to bathrm.
- Fires and heating$3,500
Install solid fuel burner in dwg
- Alterations and additions$30k
Remove wall between wc & bathrm. Widen door into bathrm alt bathrm layout, including new wet floor style shower
- Fit-outs$100k
Interior medical Centre fit out to existing commercial building unit - unit 1a
- Repairs, recladding and strengthening$400k
Rbw - housing (detached dwg) - reclad house, replace all windows & doors with thermally broken dbl-glazed, small infill/add, internal alterations
- Alterations and additions$15k
Res alterations & additions
- New homes$500k
New two bdrm dwg with attached two bay shed housing - detached
- Fires and heating$4,200
Free standing fire - wagner sparky multi fuel freestanding fire with wetback
- Alterations and additions$200k
Dwg (re-located on to property) - siting foundations & services with gge built on site
- Fires and heating$7,000
Free standing fire - yunca wegj rural freestanding fire
- Alterations and additions$100k
Dwg (re-located on to property) - sitings foundations & services for 2 dwgs
- Fires and heating$8,000
Solid fuel heater - metro smart insert fire
- Fires and heating$11k
Free standing fire - firenzo Bronte freestanding fire
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Suburbs in Pahiatua
Where the consents we hold are, most in the last 12 months first.
Questions
How many building consents were issued in Pahiatua?
In the year to September 2026, Stats NZ counted 33 new homes consented in the Tararua District council area, with $24.1m of residential and $17.9m 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.