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Planning and Development

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Planning for your home - whether it be building your first home, wanting to subdivide or building a pool fence - requires you to contact the Hastings District Council. Use the links below to view detailed pages about building and resource consents, subdivisions and more.

Planning for your home

Check out the Good Practice Landscape Guidelines to help you plan your development

Building
If you are considering a building project in or around your home - whether it be renovating, starting from scratch or general maintenance, it is best that you speak to the Hastings District Council before you start any work.
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Resource Consents
When you want to build or use your land in a way that does not comply with the rules in Hastings District Council's District Plan, you will need to get special permission from Council. This permission is called a resource consent. More information

Hastings District Plan
The District Plan guides the way the Hastings District is developed and seeks to control any negative effects of development through rules about the type of building, subdivision or land use that can occur in different zones. More information

Planning in the Hastings District

Find out the current projects Council's Strategic Development team have been working on in terms of industrial zoning, lifestyle and residential housing, urban development, as well as commercial and transportation.

Projects within these pages include the Arataki, Goddard Lane and Lyndhurst New Urban Development projects, the Industrial Zoning project at Whakatu, Low Density projects (lifestyle) as well as the Clive Urban Development Strategy.
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Private Bag 9002, Hastings, New Zealand. Ph +64 06 878 0500 Fax +64 06 878 0555