TONI DAWSON, a fully qualified Mortgage Advisor, with more than 15 years’ industry experience, shares her expertise.
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Granny flat builds will soon become “faster and more affordable”
The Government will go further than it earlier proposed to make it easier to build granny flats by increasing the maximum size allowed to be built without consents from 60sqm to 70sqm.
It will introduce an amendment to the Building Act in the middle of this year that will exempt granny flats from needing a building consent if:
- The granny flat has a simple design and meets the Building Code.
- Building work is carried out by authorised building professionals.
- Homeowners notify their local council before they start building and once the project is completed.
Estimates suggest these proposed changes will result in an extra 13,000 dwellings being built over the next decade.
The proposed consent exemption will apply only to granny flats built after the exemption is in force, not to any building work currently in progress or existing structures that fit the specifications of a granny flat under the final exemption criteria.
- Toni Dawson, NZCFS Level 5, BBS, GradDipBusStuds (Personal Financial Planning) FSP1000506, phone 027 646 9269, at 38A Wakelin Road, Beachlands 2018.
