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Who is responsible for inspecting building work Will building work be inspected Inspections not occurring Who is responsible for inspecting building work
Councils are able to inspect new building work to make sure that it complies with the approval.
They are required to develop and adopt a building inspection policy for building work within their areas. Their policy describes the level of inspections to be carried out on residential building work, and details of any other building inspections that the council may undertake. It also specifies the criteria for selecting buildings to be inspected.
Councils delegate building inspection powers to authorised officers.
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Will building work be inspected
Whether or not your building will be inspected is up to your council and its building inspection policies. Often building inspections are conducted randomly with the council’s policy detailing the frequency and type of building inspections carried out within that council area.
For more information contact your
council for a copy of its building inspection policy.
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Inspections not occurring
It is important to notify the council when building work starts, at nominated stages during the building process and when the building work is completed. These notifications enable council to program inspections at important stages of the work.
If building inspections are not occurring you should notify council as they may not be aware that work has actually started. If you would like more frequent inspections than those provided by the council then you should consider engaging your own building consultant to do them for you.
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More information
Downloads Council building inspections explained (PDF 77KB)
For an alternative version of this document see
planning contacts.
Legislation Development Act 1993
Development Regulations 2008