Christmas Building & Planning Processing Times

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Published: 22 Nov 2016

The period from 20 December to 10 January every year is classified as “non working days” under the Resource Management Act 1991 and the Building Act 2004.

Therefore the 20 working day period the Council has to process a Building Consent, Land Use or Subdivision Consent application takes these days into account. All applications for the above from today will be affected.

Timaru District Council offices will be closed from 3.00pm Friday 23 December until 8.30am Wednesday 4 January.

The Building and Planning Units would like to wish all our customers a Merry Christmas and Happy New Year.

If you have any queries, please contact customer services

Last updated: 24 Feb 2021