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Malcolm Fleming: NZ Certified Builders Chief Executive on changes to consenting process · The SME Stream

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  Speaker 1: Big changes coming to our building consenting process could be
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  Speaker 1: on the way. Currently, there are sixty seven building consent
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  Speaker 1: authorities who receive and approved consents in New Zealand, sixty
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  Speaker 1: seven of them, with each one taking a slightly different
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  Speaker 1: approach to the rules. So building can construction. Mister Chris
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  Speaker 1: Pink he's proposing changes to create larger regional authorities to
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  Speaker 1: help standardize the process and make things quicker. Malcolm Flemings
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  Speaker 1: and New Zealand Certified Builders Chief Executive. He's with us
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  Speaker 1: this morning.
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  Speaker 2: Malcolm, good morning, Good morning, Rayan.
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  Speaker 1: You're happy about these changes. Do you have any idea
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  Speaker 1: how much quicker it could make the process?
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  Speaker 2: Well? First of all, Ryan, we support his answer. Certified
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  Speaker 2: Bill supports this general move towards quicker the processes for
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  Speaker 2: building consent authorities to work through building consents. As you're
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  Speaker 2: pointed out in your introduction, there are sixty seven different
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  Speaker 2: building councils around yourself, and we often have a different
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  Speaker 2: interpretation of a building consent. For example, a designer a
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  Speaker 2: builder in cost Urge maybe submitting a building consent in
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  Speaker 2: that jurisdiction and that building concent of flying through without
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  Speaker 2: any problems. The same building consent and presented say in
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  Speaker 2: a way catechist as an example, what have some issues
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  Speaker 2: and that creates inconsistency, that creates time and delays. Time
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  Speaker 2: is cost for a project.
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  Speaker 1: Speaking of time wait times, we're hearing up to two
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  Speaker 1: months for a building concent eighteen months for a resource
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  Speaker 1: concent Does that sound about right?
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  Speaker 2: Building consents have become down from where they were in
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  Speaker 2: the peak. And remember Ian, it wasn't that long ago
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  Speaker 2: that we were talking for two years in fact, that
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  Speaker 2: we have an artificial peak of fifty thousand building consent
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  Speaker 2: applications in this country. The previous we've just got over
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  Speaker 2: forty thousand two years before in twenty twenty one, and
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  Speaker 2: that was the first time forty thousand have been exceeded
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  Speaker 2: since the mid and nineteen seventies. So there's a lot
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  Speaker 2: of pressure on the system right now, building consents are
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  Speaker 2: tracking through at a reasonable rate.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, what about the private consenting providers? This is for inspections.
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  Speaker 1: People are worried about this because of leaky homes and
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  Speaker 1: if we reintroduce private consenting providers that you know, we
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  Speaker 1: have more problems on our hands. Would you are you
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  Speaker 1: okay with that suggestion?
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  Speaker 2: I'm more rather prefer some of the options they've been
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  Speaker 2: looking at in this paper. Other options, and again there
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  Speaker 2: is a lack of detail, but options along the lines
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  Speaker 2: of regional bcas sort of amalgamation of some of those
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  Speaker 2: existing bcas. I would imagine as we've been talking about
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  Speaker 2: agency being our own submission to the regulator around a
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  Speaker 2: large metro drawing and being unified with a number of
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  Speaker 2: the smaller councils. They've got really good capacity within the
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  Speaker 2: system itself, reads that emerging creating greater we're all capacity
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  Speaker 2: within those organizations to have this go be able to
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  Speaker 2: carry through. At the moment we're a little lower and
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  Speaker 2: building contents more like the word just about four years
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  Speaker 2: before COVID, but they'll actually up at again the next
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  Speaker 2: couple of years. The government's quite quite right to look
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  Speaker 2: at this now, all right.
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  Speaker 1: So it sounds like they're doing the right thing. How
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  Speaker 1: they're doing a different story, Malcolm, Thank you for that.
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  Speaker 1: Malcolm Fleming, the New Zealand Certified Builder's Chief executive, with
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  Speaker 1: us this morning.