Building consents · Stats NZ figures to September 2026
Building consents in Te Kūiti
9 new homes were consented in the Waitomo District council area in the year to September 2026, down 47% on the year before. They also consented $14.2m of non-residential building work, up 127% on the year before. Below: 260 consents we hold in Te Kūiti, searchable and on the map.
Stats NZ publishes building consents down to the council, so the official figures on this page are for the Waitomo District council area.
New homes consented each month
Dwellings in new building consents, Waitomo 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 50 in 2021.
Non-residential building work each month
The value of new and altered non-residential buildings consented — offices, shops, factories, warehouses, farm buildings, schools, hospitals — Waitomo 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$9m
1 building · 2,017 m² new floor area · $4,462/m² new · +917% on the year before
- Farm buildings$2.3m
8 buildings · 6,229 m² new floor area · $374/m² new · +96% on the year before
- Education$1.5m
+283% on the year before
- Social, cultural and religious$670k
2 buildings · 230 m² new floor area · $2,826/m² new · −29% on the year before
- Factories and industrial$380k
2 buildings · 280 m² new floor area · $714/m² new · −56% on the year before
- Shops, restaurants and bars$240k
−86% on the year before
- Hostels, boarding houses and prisons$50k
- Hotels and motels$45k
−77% on the year before
Consents on record in Te Kūiti
Individual building consents we hold, each on its property: 260 from 1 Aug 2019 to 1 Aug 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 heating48
10 in the last 12 months · typically $6,000
- New homes45
7 in the last 12 months · typically $414k
- Alterations and additions26
4 in the last 12 months · typically $22k
- Garages, sheds and carports16
typically $49k
- Plumbing, drainage and wastewater9
1 in the last 12 months · typically $30k
- Pools and spas7
2 in the last 12 months · typically $15k
- Relocated buildings7
typically $50k
- Repairs, recladding and strengthening5
1 in the last 12 months · typically $50k
- Decks, pergolas and verandahs4
1 in the last 12 months · typically $35k
- Other new buildings2
1 in the last 12 months · typically $471k
Consents on record by month
The last three years. A recent dip is often records still to arrive.
Largest in the last 12 months
- $2.4mRbw - proposed two x two-storey dwg with three bedrooms, two baths. Proposed three x two-storey dwg with three bedrooms, 1.5 baths, one ens proposed one x two-storey dwg with four bedro 1 Esplanade, Te Kūiti
- $1.4mRbw - new three, three-storey standalone dwgs with single gge, 2.5 bathrooms, open plan kitchen dining living. Block wall retaining wall with tanking, shiplap weatherboard cladding & metalcr 12 Reynolds Road, Te Kūiti
- $870kDwg with attached gge 22 queen St Oxford lot 4 dp 596675 22 Queen Street, Te Kūiti
- $770kNew single storey 2 bdrm dwg with attached single gge 12 Robin Azariah Place, Te Kūiti
- $745kProposed brick veneer & james hardie stria clad single 210A Mangarino Road, Te Kūiti
260 consents
- New homes$870k
Dwg with attached gge 22 queen St Oxford lot 4 dp 596675
- Other new buildings$745k
Proposed brick veneer & james hardie stria clad single
- Alterations and additions$30k
Consents needed for 3 portable buildings on wheels to be put
- Plumbing, drainage and wastewater$30k
Installing wastewater system
- Pools and spas$70k
New kiwi estate swimming pool 8x4m & pool fences
- Fires and heating$7,000
Install masport clutha woodburner
- New homes$2.4m
Rbw - proposed two x two-storey dwg with three bedrooms, two baths. Proposed three x two-storey dwg with three bedrooms, 1.5 baths, one ens proposed one x two-storey dwg with four bedro
- Decks, pergolas and verandahs$80k
Rbw - new aluminium louvre verandah roof add to existing upper deck.
- New homes$770k
New single storey 2 bdrm dwg with attached single gge
- Fires and heating$7,800
Install masport Akaroa clean air woodburner with ash pan
- Fires and heating$6,000
Install woodsman Tarras mk111 freestanding fire & flue
- Fires and heating$8,000
Installation of solid fuel fire
- Fires and heating$6,000
Remove existing wood burner & install new uleb wood burner
- Alterations and additions$15k
Renovation of the existing bathrm, wc & laundry spaces
- Fires and heating$9,000
Installation of a firenzo contessa platform rural wood fire
- Fires and heating$7,200
Install kent logfire ii clean air insert woodburner into
- Fires and heating$6,500
F/s masport Waimakariri
- Alterations and additions$5,000
Alt to dwg - installation of firenzo contessa ultra (platform) (uleb), freestanding, dry, woodburner, cac 251620.
- New homes$1.4m
Rbw - new three, three-storey standalone dwgs with single gge, 2.5 bathrooms, open plan kitchen dining living. Block wall retaining wall with tanking, shiplap weatherboard cladding & metalcr
- Pools and spas$15k
Install new pool fencing.
- New homes$550k
4bdrm dwg with two cladding types
- Alterations and additions$80k
Erect a Widespan sheds kitset building on a full concrete pad, installation of a small toilet installation of a yunca monte base wood burner
- Fires and heating$1
New 2 bdrm dwg with 1 bathrm, mudroom & solid fuel burner amendment 1: house location moved on site verandah & deck removed
- New homes$350k
2 bdrm 20 series solid filled masonry block dwg
- Fires and heating$10k
Installation of rosa pellet fire onto existing floor
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Suburbs in Te Kūiti
Where the consents we hold are, most in the last 12 months first.
Questions
How many building consents were issued in Te Kūiti?
In the year to September 2026, Stats NZ counted 9 new homes consented in the Waitomo District council area, with $7.8m of residential and $14.2m 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.