PlanPass

Minor residential building consents · NZ-wide

Your building consent, drawn, certified and lodged.

Bathrooms, kitchens, wall removals and fireplaces. Our focus: getting your minor consent through council, fast, at a fixed price.

Check if your project qualifies → Start your application

Takes about 3 minutes. No commitment. We'll tell you straight away if it's not a fit. (Even "Start your application" begins with this check; it's the fastest way in.)

The delay usually isn't the council. It's the paperwork.

Most consent delays come from applications that go back and forth on missing information, not from councils sitting on files. We build the documentation set so it doesn't come back.

86% of council Requests for Information (RFIs) are caused by the applicant's own documentation, not the council. (BRANZ research)
~77% of Auckland Council applications trigger at least one RFI, adding roughly 19 days to the process.
9 days is the median time an applicant takes to respond to an RFI, and the statutory clock stops for all of it.

How PlanPass is different

Fixed price, published

No hourly billing, no vague estimate. See the price before you start on our pricing page.

Sorted from your phone

No waiting on an appointment. You send a sketch and photos from your phone.

LBP-backed

Every consent we lodge is backed by a Licensed Building Practitioner, start to finish.

We lodge and handle RFIs

We submit as your agent and manage council correspondence through to consent.

Upfront about limits

If your project isn't a fit, we say so before you pay us anything. See below.

Built for builders too

LBPs and builders lodge most consent applications. If you manage jobs for clients, we work directly with you.

What we don't do

We only handle minor residential work inside your existing footprint. If your project falls outside that, you need a designer or a planner, and we'll tell you that before you pay us anything.

We take on

  • New or altered bathrooms and ensuites
  • Kitchen and laundry alterations
  • One internal load-bearing wall removal
  • Adding a toilet or sanitary fixture
  • Wood burner / fireplace installations

We refer out

  • Cross-lease or unit title properties
  • Anything adding floor area, second storeys, or new dwellings
  • Pre-1944 or heritage-listed houses
  • Anything needing resource consent
  • Multi-unit, body corporate, or commercial
  • Leaky home / weathertightness remediation

Run the 3-minute check to see where your project sits →

Not sure if you qualify?

Answer eight quick questions about your property and project. We'll tell you straight away, pass, refer, or a quick check first.

Check if your project qualifies →