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24th Jan 2012

There are some changes you need to know about. From March 1, Restricted Building Work comes into effect. This applies to most residential building or renovation work and only a Licensed Building Practitioner can undertake or supervise the work.
If you apply for a building consent after March 1 you must make sure that the practitioners you use are correctly licensed to carry out the work. Licensed Building Practitioners include
Designers,
Carpenters,
Roofers,
External Plasterers,
Brick and Blocklayers and
Foundations specialists.
Professional Engineers, Architects, Plumbers and Gasfitters are treated as Licensed Building Practitioners and can carry out some restricted Building work.
Further information about this change including some guidance documentation can be found at the following link dbh.govt.nz/builditright

Build it Right - Department of Building and Housing
dbh.govt.nz
There are some changes you need to know about. From March 1, Restricted Building Work comes into effect. This applies to most residential building or renovation work and only a Licensed Building Practitioner can undertake or supervise the work.

23rd Jan 2012

FOOD SAMPLING

Food Business owners may be aware that during the summer months, we undertake regular food sampling of certain foods e.g. ice cream, sandwiches, sushi etc. This forms part of an annual routine sampling programme, so don?t be alarmed if we turn up to collect a sample of a particular food from your premises. Every month we will be targeting a specific food and will take samples from a few premises that sell that type of food.

The programme has shown to us what great food businesses we have in our district. However, if samples are found to have unsatisfactory levels of bacteria we will, contact the business to help to work out what could be causing the contamination and assist you in taking corrective action, to ensure public safety.

20th Dec 2011

How many new houses will be built in the Queenstown Lakes District in 2012?

www.lakesenvironmental.co.nz/updates/blog

December 2011 - Blog - Latest Updates - Lakes Environmental
www.lakesenvironmental.co.nz

14th Dec 2011

Found black and white huntaway - Queenstown, no collar or tags but microchipped, please contact Lakes Environmental on 03 450 0300

8th Nov 2011

Building Consent Statistics

Statistics New Zealand has released by the September 2011 statistics for building consents issued. Consents for 1,246 new dwellings were issued in September. This is a decrease when compared with August (1,509) and also when compared with September 2010 (1,262).

The September 2011 result is a reversal of a trend which has seen new dwelling consents increasing since March 2011.

In the Queenstown Lakes District 27 new dwelling consents were issued in September compared with 32 in August and 34 in Spetember 2010. The following graph shows that in general terms the number of new dwelling consents issued in the Queenstown Lakes District over the last few years has tended to follow the national trend.



However, what is not obvious from this graph is that the decline in new dwelling consents in the distrct has not been as severe as has been experienced over the rest of the country. In the year ended June 2011 new dwelling consents nationally had declined by 49% from the peak experienced in 2007, whereas new dwelling consents in the Queenstown Lakes District had declined by 39% for the same period.

For the full release from Staistics NZ see:

www.stats.govt.nz/~/media/Statistics/Browse%20for%20stats/BuildingConsentsIssued/HOTPSep11/BuildingConsentsIssuedSep11HOTP.pdf

18th Oct 2011

The Ministry for the Environment has recently released its biennial Resource Management Act Survey of Local Authorities for the period 1 July 2010 to 30 June 2011.
Key results from the survey include:
? 36,154 resource consents were processed nationally, a decline of 30% when compared with the last survey in 2007-08. For the same period Lakes Environmental processed 910 resource consents compared with 1,246 in 2007-08, a decline of 27%.
? Nationally in 2010-11, 95% of resource consent applications were processed within the statutory timeframe compared with 69% in 2007-08. Lakes Environmental achieved 96% on time in 2010-11, a significant improvement over the 76% achieved in 2007-08

Read the full survey here:

www.mfe.govt.nz/publications/rma/annual-survey/2010-2011/survey-report-2010-11.pdf

or, a summary here

www.mfe.govt.nz/publications/rma/annual-survey/2010-2011/key-facts-2010-11.pdf

www.mfe.govt.nz/publications/rma/annual-survey/2010-2011/survey-report-2010-11.pdf
www.mfe.govt.nz

30th Sep 2011

We've just launch our new Lakes Environmental website, check it out.

Lakes Environmental, Queenstown NZ
www.lakesenvironmental.co.nz
Lakes Environmental provides resource management, building control and other regulatory services on behalf of the Queenstown Lakes District Council (QLDC).