Consent-ready drawings, without the back-and-forth.
Lifestyle Home Designs prepares building consent documentation, district planning assessments and subdivision drawings for homeowners, builders and relocated-dwelling projects across New Zealand's North Island — designed to clear the Building Consent Authority the first time.
Consent documentation is the whole job here — not a line on someone else's invoice.
Most residential design practices bundle consent work in with architecture, interiors and landscape design. Lifestyle Home Designs does one thing: the drawings, assessments and compliance work a Building Consent Authority needs to say yes — scoped tightly and followed through to Code Compliance Certificate.
New homes, alterations, and relocated dwellings
Three different starting points, each with its own consent pathway — documented for what the Building Consent Authority actually needs to see for that kind of project.
New homes
Working drawings and specifications for a new build, prepared to demonstrate compliance from siting and foundations through to the finished floor plan — a single dwelling or a multi-unit build on one title.
Alterations & additions
Documentation for extending or reconfiguring an existing house — an extra bedroom, a second storey, a kitchen reconfiguration — assessed against the existing building's compliance as well as the new work, so the addition doesn't leave the rest of the house non-compliant.
Relocatable homes
Compliance design for a dwelling moved onto a new site — foundation and tie-down design for the relocated structure, services connections, and the documentation a BCA needs to certify a building that wasn't built on site.
Four stages, one consent pathway
Every project moves through the same sequence — scoped to minimum compliance so nothing is drawn or assessed that the consent doesn't require.
Concept & feasibility
Site assessment against the operative District Plan, relocated-dwelling feasibility checks, and an early read on setbacks, height-in-relation-to-boundary and permitted activity status before any drawings begin.
District Plan rulesBuilding consent documentation
Working drawings and specifications prepared to demonstrate compliance, sized and detailed for the Building Consent Authority reviewing your application — not over-documented.
Working drawingsPlanning assessments & subdivision
Resource consent and district planning assessments under the RMA, plus subdivision design and scheme plans where a project involves splitting or reconfiguring a site.
RMA & subdivisionCompliance sign-off
RFI responses and direct liaison with the Building Consent Authority through to Code Compliance Certificate, keeping the file moving without unnecessary rounds.
Through to CCCDocumentation scoped to the file it's going into
Lifestyle Home Designs handles the full run of residential consent work — working drawings and specifications, district planning and resource consent assessments under the RMA, and subdivision scheme plans. A recurring part of the job is the site-services design that often decides whether a project gets through: stormwater management design, and on-site wastewater system sizing where a site has no reticulated system.
Every territorial authority assesses against its own District Plan and engineering standards, so drawings are built for the authority actually reviewing them — then followed through RFIs to Code Compliance Certificate, rather than handed off once lodged.
Start with the site and the scope
Send the address, a rough idea of what you're building or relocating, and the territorial authority it falls under — that's enough for an initial read on process and fee.
Working on a relocated dwelling, a subdivision, or a standard new-build consent? Most enquiries get an initial scope and indicative fee back within a few working days.