Building consents · Stats NZ figures to September 2026
Building consents in Tapanui
54 new homes were consented in the Clutha District council area in the year to September 2026, down 7% on the year before. They also consented $46.6m of non-residential building work, up 218% on the year before. Below: 153 consents we hold in Tapanui, searchable and on the map.
Stats NZ publishes building consents down to the council, so the official figures on this page are for the Clutha District council area.
New homes consented each month
Dwellings in new building consents, Clutha 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 91 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 — Clutha 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$17.8m
3 buildings · 2,725 m² new floor area · $6,437/m² new · +313% on the year before
- Factories and industrial$15.1m
4 buildings · 881 m² new floor area · $15,716/m² new · +758% on the year before
- Farm buildings$10.9m
57 buildings · 23,160 m² new floor area · $472/m² new · +322% on the year before
- Warehouses and storage$1.4m
1 building · 1,008 m² new floor area · $1,438/m² new · +326% on the year before
- Offices$955k
0% on the year before
- Hostels, boarding houses and prisons$225k
- Education$70k
−96% on the year before
- Shops, restaurants and bars$65k
−97% on the year before
- Hotels and motels$20k
−92% on the year before
Consents on record in Tapanui
Individual building consents we hold, each on its property: 153 from 1 Aug 2019 to 1 Jul 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 heating41
12 in the last 12 months · typically $5,830
- New homes18
7 in the last 12 months · typically $568k
- Alterations and additions17
2 in the last 12 months · typically $24k
- Garages, sheds and carports14
3 in the last 12 months · typically $60k
- Plumbing, drainage and wastewater13
1 in the last 12 months · typically $5,000
- Multiple homes4
1 in the last 12 months · typically $1.1m
- Insulation3
typically $6,500
- Repairs, recladding and strengthening2
typically $55k
- Minor dwellings and sleepouts1
1 in the last 12 months · typically $400k
- Decks, pergolas and verandahs1
typically $15k
Consents on record by month
The last three years. A recent dip is often records still to arrive.
Largest in the last 12 months
- $1.4m2 storey res dwg with covered carport 7 Derby Street, Tapanui
- $920kConstruct new 3 bdrm res dwg with timber framed subfloor, timber wall framing & timber roof framing. Exterior cladding to be brick veneer & vertical corrugate. Installation of wagener fairburn combustion stove 67 Station Road, Tapanui
- $792kConstruction of 4 attached dwgs with 3 attached garages subject to section 77 certificate. 18 Devon Street, Tapanui
- $675k4 bdrm 2 bathrm house with an attached dbl gge 23 Knowles Road, Tapanui
- $672kNew 4 bdrm timber framed dwg on sed foundation/slab, with prenailed frame, coloursteel roofing, brick veneer & linea oblique weatherboard cladding, electric & solid fuel heating with gas hotwater 11 Devon Street, Tapanui
153 consents
- Alterations and additions$12k
Remove wall & install beam to open up lounge home owner exemption design & build
- Fires and heating$3,000
Replace existing wood burner with a maxen kinmont 350p wood burner
- Plumbing, drainage and wastewater$4,000
Adding a new toilet to an existing bathrm
- New homes$675k
4 bdrm 2 bathrm house with an attached dbl gge
- Fires and heating$6,000
Installation of woodburner- woodsman Brunner mkii
- New homes$320k
New single storey 3 bdrm dwg
- New homes$1.4m
2 storey res dwg with covered carport
- New homes$672k
New 4 bdrm timber framed dwg on sed foundation/slab, with prenailed frame, coloursteel roofing, brick veneer & linea oblique weatherboard cladding, electric & solid fuel heating with gas hotwater
- Fires and heating$7,500
Install freestanding yunca monte multi fuel logfire
- Garages, sheds and carports$55k
Gge
- Fires and heating$18k
Install a pellet boiler named attack pellet 30 automatic plus. This is a central heating system which runs on pellets & heats the house.
- Fires and heating$12k
To install a blaze king sirocco 30 pedestal model fire, flue & flue shield on an ash floor protector
- Fires and heating$7,600
To install a masport Hurunui ashpan woodburner with flue & flue shield on an ash floor protector
- Minor dwellings and sleepouts$400k
2 bdrm dwg with metrofire woodburner. Plus gge & studio with ensuite. Council ww
- Fires and heating$6,000
Install freestanding wood burner with wetback
- Fires and heating$6,609
To install a masport Kaituna pedestal wood burner with flue & flue shield & new corner ash floor protector
- Alterations and additions$5,000
Rbw - new window installed in existing wall in the lounge room, in an existing two storey detached dwg.
- Fires and heating$4,500
Removal of old woodburner & install new woodsman Tarras mklll
- Fires and heating$4,000
Freestanding roaring meg eco clean air wood burner. Detached dwgs
- Fires and heating$5,163
Remove existing fire & flue. Install new fire & flue (woodsman kanaku)
- New homes$400k
New single storey dwg
- Fires and heating$7,540
To install a yunca xander insert fire & flue kit in existing masonry chimney
- Garages, sheds and carports$20k
Construction of a level 1 shed
- Multiple homes$792k
Construction of 4 attached dwgs with 3 attached garages subject to section 77 certificate.
- New homes$672k
New 4 bdrm timber framed dwg on sed foundation/slab, with prenailed frame, coloursteel roofing, brick veneer & linea oblique weatherboard cladding, electric heating & gas hotwater
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Suburbs in Tapanui
Where the consents we hold are, most in the last 12 months first.
Questions
How many building consents were issued in Tapanui?
In the year to September 2026, Stats NZ counted 54 new homes consented in the Clutha District council area, with $34.6m of residential and $46.6m 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.