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We generally cost recover for processing your resource consent application on a "user-pays" basis. How much will vary depending on the type of consent, how simple it is, how well your application and assessment has been done, how long the consent takes to assess and any additional costs we incur. When you lodge your consent application you must also include the required deposit fee.
Talking with us before you finalise your proposal and prepare your application can save delays and costs during its processing.
Once you have got your resource consent, some types of resource consents do have annual fees that you must pay over the lifetime of the resource consent.
You may also need to pay development contributions for subdivision and some types of development, such as an extra dwelling. These are not RMA charges, as they rely on the Local Government Act 2002 and our obligation to our community to get a fair proportion of the cost for new infrastructure services needed to meet the demand from the new development.
More information on development contributions, when you must pay, and at what stage of your project.
Charges for processing resource consents and undertaking related activities have been set in accordance with section 36 and section 36AAA of the RMA and section 150 of the LGA
To lodge a resource consent application with Council please email to: resourceconsentadmin@tasman.govt.nz
There are three ways the fees are structured:
Fixed Fee - A fixed charge payable prior to processing of a resource consent. The fixed fee charge is the full and final cost of processing of the consent application.
At Cost - At cost processing involves the charging of the actual and reasonable cost of works.
Deposit - A deposit is paid prior to processing commences. In accordance with section 36(5) of the RMA, the applicant is required to pay an additional charge to cover the actual and reasonable cost of items such as printing, advertising, postage, additional reports and commissioners that may be required in the processing of their application. An additional charge has been set for hard copy applications as the Council’s preference is electronic lodgement. This charge covers one hour of administration to print, scan and save.
Where the formula or standard fee is inadequate to enable the Council to recover the actual and reasonable costs that are or will be incurred to carry out an activity, or where the Council considers that additional charges are warranted, they may be imposed under section 36(5) RMA and are subject to rights of objection.
If a refund is due, the Council policy is to repay the person who originally supplied the deposit. Unless the Council receives written authority to the contrary, it cannot refund the money owing to someone else. Processing charges or credits of $20.00 or less are deemed uneconomic to process and the Council will not issue invoices or refunds if the total processing costs are within this $20.00 allowable variance.
If you feel that your consent specifically has been incorrectly or unfairly charged, you may write in and formally request a review of your charge (email: resourceconsentadmin@tasman.govt.nz). You need to provide us with a valid reason as to why your charge should be adjusted and we will consider your case.
Resource Management |
Charges from 1 July 2025 incl. GST |
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Hourly charge-out rate for Staff – Resource Consents and Private Plan Change Requests |
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Business Support, Environmental Policy Administrator |
$140.00 |
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Graduate Planner, Consents Officer, Graduate Policy Planner |
$193.00 |
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Consents Planner, Policy Planner, Development Engineering Officer |
$209.00 |
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Senior Planner, Senior Policy Planner, Team Leader, Principal Planner/Advisor |
$225.00 |
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All other staff advising on Resource Consents or Private Plan Change Requests |
$226.00/hr |
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Independent Commissioners |
At cost |
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Disbursements |
At cost |
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Deemed Permitted Boundary Activity Notice |
$600.00 fixed |
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Marginal or Temporary Consent Exemption Notice |
At cost |
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Non-notified Applications for Resource Consent The following new land use consents: |
$1,550.00 deposit |
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Non-notified Applications for Resource Consent |
$1,200.00 deposit |
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Non-notified Applications for Resource Consent |
$2,000.00 deposit |
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Non-notified Applications for Resource Consent |
$4,000.00 deposit |
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Non-notified Applications for: |
$1,550.00 deposit |
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Notified and Limited Notification |
$6,480.00 deposit |
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Non-notified Application Hearing |
$6,480.00 deposit |
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Plan administration time |
$140.00/hr or part thereof |
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Request for a change to a Plan (private plan change request). Additional deposits may be required. This is a deposit. Final costs will be derived from actual and reasonable costs attributed to the request, including; staff time, and or the use of consultants. |
$8,000.00 deposit |
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Compliance, Administration, Monitoring and Supervision |
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The following scale of charges are used to calculate the Council’s actual and reasonable costs when carrying out compliance monitoring under the Resource Management Act 1991. |
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Business Support |
$140.00 |
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Senior Compliance & Investigations |
$209.00 |
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Principal Compliance & Investigations |
$225.00 |
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Disbursements |
At cost |
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Resource Consent Monitoring |
At cost |
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Permitted Activity Compliance Monitoring |
At cost |
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Environmental incident inspection charges Fees and charges set in accordance with S150 LGA When inspection by an Enforcement Officer determines that a person or organisation has breached the Resource Management Act, a National Environmental Standard, a Regulation or a rule in the Tasman Resource Management Plan, the Council may charge the person or organisation responsible the actual and reasonable costs incurred by Council during the inspection.
These inspection costs include (but is not limited to) reasonable:
Note: This charge will not apply to any preparation of documents relating to the issue of any infringement notice or enforcement orders.
Note: Where an environmental incident occurs on a site that holds a resource consent and a breach of consent conditions is confirmed, this section does not apply. Any actual and reasonable costs incurred in investigating the incident will be recovered as S36 RMA charges additional to any fixed fee at the stipulated charge-out rate. |
At cost |
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Certification of construction, earthworks, sediment control or other management plans requiring approval as part of compliance with Resource Consent Conditions. |
At cost |
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Approval of Survey Plan under S.223 RMA, approval of Engineering Plans, and Completion Certificate under S.224 RMA, including monitoring, inspection and acceptance of as built plans. Also includes associated administration costs of ensuring the right information is on the correct newly created allotments. |
At cost |
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Pre-application and duty planning advice after the first 1 hour of staff time. (Deposits may be required or interim charges made prior to application lodgement). |
At cost |
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External reports and peer reviews, commissioned by Council |
At cost |
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Dust suppression discharge permit – new permit or replacement permit. If oil on road |
$970.00 deposit |
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Dust suppression discharge permit – new permit or replacement permit. Polymer on road |
$535.00 fixed |
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Outline plan consideration (S.176A RMA) |
$1,070.00 deposit |
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Outline Plan Waivers (S.176A(2)(c) RMA) |
$430.00 deposit |
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Certificate of Compliance (S.139 RMA) |
$1,280.00 deposit |
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Existing Use Certificate (S.139A RMA) |
$1,280.00 deposit |
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Extension of consent lapsing period (S.125 RMA) |
$1,060.00 deposit |
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Section 226(1)(e) RMA Certificate (allowing issue of separate title) (equates to two hours) |
$450.00 deposit |
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Bond Administration Fee |
$350.00 fixed |
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Certificate under Overseas Investment Act 2005 |
$1,070.00 deposit |
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Certificate of Compliance for Sale of Alcohol |
$210.00 fixed |
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Document Execution and Use of Council Seal |
$280.00 fixed |
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Objections under S.357, 357A and 357B RMA |
$590.00 deposit |
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Review of Consent Conditions Request for review from consent holder |
$1,280.00 deposit |
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All reviews carried out under Section 128 RMA |
At cost |
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Water meter reading fee (following failed water meter returns, 1.5 hour charge out rate – includes physical site visit to audit a meter subject to resource consent conditions) |
$330.00 |
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Part transfer of coastal, water or discharge permit (S.135, S.136 and S.137 RMA) with no changes to conditions of consent |
$1,070.00 deposit |
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Water zone allocation waiting list registration |
$425.00 deposit |
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Full transfer of Permits (S.135(1)(a), S.136(1), S.136(2)(a), or S.137(2)(a) RMA) |
$210.00 fixed |
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Minor amendment to existing Water or Discharge Permit to recognise change in land description as result of subdivision or similar. |
$300.00 deposit |
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Surcharge – receiving hard copy applications (see notes above). |
$140.00 fixed |
Resource Management |
Charges from 1 July 2025 incl. GST |
Resource Management: Administration, Monitoring and Supervision Charges of Resource Consents |
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All charges have been set in accordance with section 36 and section 36AAA of the RMA |
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Coastal Structures – Annual Charges |
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0 – 10 lines |
$694.00 |
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Each additional line |
$39.00 |
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Other structures (excluding structures that extend landward of Mean High Water Springs [MHWS]) |
$153.00 |
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Water Permit Annual Charges |
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For stock water, private domestic use, firefighting, hydroelectric power generation ≤ 2.5 l/s and permits to take water to or from storage. |
$220.00 |
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Seepage or embayment at 5 l/s and greater, cooling water, private community water supplies, schools, campgrounds and retirement villages, seawater takes and frost protection (when a separate irrigation consent is held) irrespective of the quantity authorised. |
$402.00 |
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For all other permits to take water, the fee is based on the average daily quantity of water authorised as set out below. |
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Less than 250 m³/day |
$444.00 |
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250 – 499 m³/day |
$557.00 |
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500 – 999 m³/day |
$713.00 |
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1,000 – 2,499 m³/day |
$915.00 |
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2,500 – 4,999 m³/day |
$1,404.00 |
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5,000 – 14,999 m³/day |
$2,251.00 |
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15,000 – 49,999 m³/day |
$4,750.00 |
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50,000 – 299,999 m³/day |
$13,960.00 |
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300,000 m³/day or more |
$37,685.00 |
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For Permits to Dam Water |
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Damming for non-water take purposes or where a take from storage or surface take consent is held. |
$110.00 |
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Consented damming for water take purposes. |
$220.00 |
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Discharge Permits (Water or Contaminant) |
$220.00 |
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Fish Farming |
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Less than 1,000 m³/day authorised discharge |
$220.00 |
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1,000 – 4,999 m³/day |
$402.00 |
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5,000 – 14,999 m³/day |
$1,077.00 |
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15,000 – 49,999 m³/day |
$2,197.00 |
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50,000 – 99,999 m³/day |
$5,507.00 |
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100,000 m³/day or more |
$7,226.00 |
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Food Processing Industries (including by way of example, abattoirs, fish processing, vegetable processing, dairy factories, wineries) |
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Food processing wastewater to land |
$402.00 |
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Semi-treated/screened waste to water |
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Authorised at less than 200 m³/day |
$520.00 |
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200 – 999 m³/day |
$1,570.00 |
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1,000 m³/day or more |
$3,146.00 |
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Fully treated waste to water |
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Authorised at less than 200 m³/day |
$220.00 |
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200 – 999 m³/day |
$331.00 |
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1,000 m³/day or more |
$638.00 |
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Gravel Wash and Mining Discharges |
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Less than 1,000 m³/day authorised |
$402.00 |
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1000 – 2,999 m³/day |
$638.00 |
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3,000 m³/day or more |
$1,077.00 |
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Sawmills, Timber Processing Discharges to land |
$402.00 |
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Power Generation Discharges (≥ 2.6 l/s) |
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Less than 1,000 m³/day authorised |
$220.00 |
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1,000 – 4,999 m³/day |
$402.00 |
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5,000 – 24,999 m³/day |
$774.00 |
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25,000 – 299,999 m³/day |
$1,142.00 |
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300,000 m³/day or more |
$7,384.00 |
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Discharge Permits for Sewage |
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Resource consent annual administration fixed fee for residential dwellings with an on-site wastewater treatment system. |
$139.00 |
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All other sewage including community schemes, more than two residential dwellings and commercial wastewater systems, including visitor and tourist accommodation: |
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Less than 50 m³/day authorised |
$444.00 |
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50 – 99 m³/day |
$708.00 |
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100 – 999 m³/day |
$824.00 |
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1,000 – 9,999 m³/day |
$1,103.00 |
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10,000 m³/day or more |
$1,737.00 |
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Permits Discharge to Land under Section 15(1)(d) RMA |
$220.00 |
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Discharge Permits (Air) Annual Charges |
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Major air discharges (former Pt A [Clean Air Act] activities) |
$3,446.00 |
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Minor air discharges (former Pt B [Clean Air Act] activities) |
$584.00 |
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Minor air Discharges (former Pt C [Clean Air Act] activities) |
$220.00 |
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Forestry monitoring charges |
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The Forestry Monitoring Fees and Charges set out the fixed charges for inspections and sampling under the Resource Management (National Environment Standards for Commercial Forestry) Amendment 2023. Note: |
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Monitoring of National Environmental Standards for Commercial Forestry permitted activities. |
Based on actual and reasonable costs |
Charges will include all reasonable staff time associated with processing and assessing applications (including plan change requests), excluding staff travel time to and from the site of application. Costs associated with consent processing and assessment, such as the use of consultants and laboratory costs, where in-house staff cannot provide these skills, will be recovered at actual costs. This policy also applies to the monitoring of consent conditions where an annual charge is not made or where costs exceed the payable annual charge and Council elects to recover the difference.
Where multiple resource consents are sought or required for related activities, the standard application lodgement fees (deposits) shall apply for each consent, except that the notification fee shall comprise one full deposit ($5,000.00) plus 20 percent for each additional consent required. The Resource Consents Manager or the Environmental Policy Manager has the discretion to determine a lesser total lodgement fee when there are large numbers of separate consents required
Council reserves the right to require further deposits, interim payments or advance payments of amounts to be determined by the Resource Consents Manager, Environmental Policy Manager, Group Manager - Service & Strategy or the Group Manager - Environmental Assurance if the processing activity is protracted over time or will incur costs over and above the listed deposit or standard fees. Deposits for the cost of hearings will be required when the need for a hearing is confirmed.
Where all or part of any deposit or charge is not paid, Council reserves the right not to process that application, or not to continue processing that application, in accordance with relevant statutory powers.
The cost of Councillor hearing panels is set by the Remuneration Authority and will be charged accordingly. Commissioner costs shall be charged at actual costs incurred. Where submitters request that a matter proceeds to a hearing before independent Hearing Commissioners they shall meet the costs additional to those that would have been incurred if the request had not been made (S.36(1)(ab) and (ad) RMA).
Reductions and waivers are generally not available. Reductions might be justified where the person liable to pay any charge reduces the costs to Council of carrying out its functions, including through self-regulation checks approved by Council.
Council will discount the charges for processing resource consent applications when applicable in accordance with the Resource Management (Discount on Administrative Charges) Regulations 2010.
For any Resource Consent application officially received by the Council and then withdrawn by the applicant, the Council will charge for the time spent setting up and/or processing the consent to the stage of it being withdrawn. This will be charged at the hourly rate set out in this schedule.
Please note that the deposits listed in this schedule do not always cover all of the costs of processing an application. Where processing costs exceed the specified deposit, the additional costs will be invoiced separately.
Annual charges shall be due on 1 October or the 20th of the month following the date of invoicing, whichever is later, unless otherwise agreed in writing by Council. A standard administration fee of $130.00 will be applied when consent is deemed by the Council as not currently given effect to and the ability to give effect is not currently present. Excludes permits to take water, full fees apply. Wastewater permits are exempt.
A 50% rebate applies to the annual charges for consents with consent-specific monitoring programmes where monitoring costs are being recovered separately. Specific arrangements will be made in relation to approved self-regulation inspections.
Where a consent has expired and the activity is continuing per section 124 of the RMA while an application for a replacement consent is being processed, the applicant shall continue to be liable to pay any annual and/or monitoring charge.
Hydroelectric power generation (≥ 2.6 l/s), suction dredging, and land-based fish farming annual charges will be based on the discharge fee and not the water take fee as long as the take and discharge are of equal volume. If there is a consumptive off-take then that take will attract the annual charge as for other consumptive takes. Consents to take will still attract the minimum standard water permit annual charge.
Annual charges levied on holders of resource consents will be recovered whether permits are exercised or not.
Where a water take consent is restricted to winter-only abstraction a 50% discount will apply.
Property Information |
Charges from 1 July 2025 incl. GST |
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Fees and charges set in accordance with S12 LGA |
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LIM - Land Information Memorandum requested under S44A of the Local Government Official Information and Meetings Act 1987 |
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Residential |
$421.00 |
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Commercial/Industrial |
$607.00 |
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Cancellation Fee LIMs cancelled within 2 working days of payment received are eligible for a refund but will incur a cancellation fee. |
50% of LIM fee |
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Property enquiries – access to Council records |
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Files sent via Sharefile. |
$59.00 |
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Frequent user discount is available as follows |
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A lump sum payable annually in advance for a company giving access to an unlimited number of files |
$2,750.00 |
LIM fees - Large properties involving more than one record of title will be quoted accordingly.
Note: Should a special request be made that results in a field inspection and/or submitter research, Council reserves the right to charge any additional fees that are appropriate, based on the amount of time required to provide the requested information.
