Building consents · Stats NZ figures to September 2026
Building consents in Pataua North
450 new homes were consented in the Whangarei District council area in the year to September 2026, up 18% on the year before. They also consented $144m of non-residential building work, up 97% on the year before. Below: 13 consents we hold in Pataua North, searchable and on the map.
Stats NZ publishes building consents down to the council, so the official figures on this page are for the Whangarei District council area.
New homes consented each month
Dwellings in new building consents, Whangarei 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 964 in 2022.
Non-residential building work each month
The value of new and altered non-residential buildings consented — offices, shops, factories, warehouses, farm buildings, schools, hospitals — Whangarei 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.
- Offices$35m
8 buildings · 8,875 m² new floor area · $3,529/m² new · +228% on the year before
- Shops, restaurants and bars$23.8m
4 buildings · 4,165 m² new floor area · $4,778/m² new · +231% on the year before
- Hotels and motels$19m
1 building · 2,380 m² new floor area · $7,983/m² new · +4122% on the year before
- Warehouses and storage$19m
6 buildings · 12,895 m² new floor area · $1,466/m² new · +59% on the year before
- Education$18.7m
9 buildings · 2,217 m² new floor area · $1,628/m² new · −26% on the year before
- Social, cultural and religious$12.5m
3 buildings · 592 m² new floor area · $5,380/m² new · +1291% on the year before
- Hospitals and health$6.3m
1 building · 1,165 m² new floor area · $3,863/m² new · +974% on the year before
- Factories and industrial$5.6m
4 buildings · 3,253 m² new floor area · $1,460/m² new · −42% on the year before
- Farm buildings$4.6m
31 buildings · 5,859 m² new floor area · $768/m² new · −24% on the year before
Consents on record in Pataua North
Individual building consents we hold, each on its property: 13 from 1 Nov 2019 to 1 Mar 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 additions8
1 in the last 12 months · typically $20k
- New homes2
typically $1.3m
- Decks, pergolas and verandahs1
typically $135k
- Plumbing, drainage and wastewater1
typically $20k
Consents on record by month
The last three years. A recent dip is often records still to arrive.
Largest in the last 12 months
- $250kBdrm, living & bathrm extens 21 Hall Road, Pataua North
13 consents
- Alterations and additions$250k
Bdrm, living & bathrm extens
- Alterations and additions$12k
Internal alterations to existing dwg (tiled shower) housing - detached
- Alterations and additions$120k
Alt to existing dwg - basement
- Alterations and additions$6,000
New heating appliance
- New homes$1m
New dwg, two sleepouts & wastewater system
- Alterations and additions$20k
New dwg & minor dwg amendment 1: alterations to proposed dwg & minor dwg - cladding, bracing, califont, window layout to minor dwg, skylights & truss layout
- Decks, pergolas and verandahs$135k
Add & alt to existing dwg - kitchen, bathrm, stairs & deck
- Alterations and additions$20k
New dwg amendment 1: brick cladding changed to nuwall, new storage room added to ground floor, w14 deleted.
- Alterations and additions$7,100
New heating appliance
- New homes$1.6m
New dwg & minor dwg
- Alterations and additions$24k
Installation of a naturalflow nf8000p treatment system, fed through soakage beds for a future dwg arrangement
- Plumbing, drainage and wastewater$20k
New effluent system
- Decks, pergolas and verandahs$30k
Add to existing dwg - deck
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Suburbs in Pataua North
Where the consents we hold are, most in the last 12 months first.
Questions
How many building consents were issued in Pataua North?
In the year to September 2026, Stats NZ counted 450 new homes consented in the Whangarei District council area, with $283m of residential and $144m 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.