Development contributions are charges required by local councils on new development to help fund the infrastructure needed to support growth. The Local Government Act 2002 (LGA) allows local authorities to require development contributions to fund infrastructure needed to support new development.
Development contributions help to ensure that new developments contribute their fair share to the cost of expanding or upgrading these infrastructure systems to meet the needs of the growing community. Without these contributions, the cost of providing infrastructure for new developments would fall on existing residents and ratepayers.
You will usually have to pay development contributions for residential developments such as new houses and apartments, granny flats, non-residential developments, subdivisions, and for some changes of land use.
We’ll work out the exact amount you need to pay when we assess your development for its building consent, resource consent or service connection.
The fees are calculated based on the number of household equivalent units (HEU) created by the development and the type and location of your development.
Our resources below will help give you an indication as to what you may have to pay.
Search our Development Catchment Areas on the interactive map.
Read our Development Contributions Policy for 2024.
If you want to know more about development contributions please contact our Development Agreements team:
Phone +64 4 237 5089
Email [email protected]
We’ll help you get the information you need.
Development contributions catchment areas interactive map
Use this map to see which area your development sits in
You can ask us to reconsider a development contribution assessment if you believe it was incorrect or based on incorrect information. You may also make a formal objection to an assessment or reconsideration of an assessment. Details of how to do this are in our Developments Contributions Policy above.
You can ask the Council to reconsider our assessment of the development contribution that need to be paid if you think:
a) the development contribution was incorrectly calculated or assessed under the Development Contributions Policy; or
b) the Council incorrectly applied the Development Contributions Policy; or
c) the information used to assess the applicant’s development against the Development Contributions Policy, or the way the Council has recorded or used it when requiring the Development Contribution, was incomplete or contained errors.
A request for reconsideration must be made within 10 working days after the date on which the applicant receives notice from the Council of the level of Development Contribution that the Council
The Council will give you written notice of the outcome of its consideration within 15 working days after the date on which it receives all required relevant information relating to the request.
You can’t apply for reconsideration of a development contribution if you have already made an objection to the requirement for a development. However, you can object to the outcome of the reconsideration (see below for information on how to make an objection).
