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Speaker 1: Big changes coming to our building consenting process could be

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Speaker 1: on the way. Currently, there are sixty seven building consent

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Speaker 1: authorities who receive and approved consents in New Zealand, sixty

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Speaker 1: seven of them, with each one taking a slightly different

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Speaker 1: approach to the rules. So building can construction. Mister Chris

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Speaker 1: Pink he's proposing changes to create larger regional authorities to

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Speaker 1: help standardize the process and make things quicker. Malcolm Fleming's

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Speaker 1: in New Zealand Certified Builders Chief Executive. He's with us

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Speaker 1: this morning.

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Speaker 2: Malcolm, good morning, Good morning, Rayan.

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Speaker 1: You're happy about these changes. Do you have any idea

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Speaker 1: how much quicker it could make the process?

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Speaker 2: Well? First of all, Ryan, we support his answer. Certified

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Speaker 2: Biller supports this general move towards quicker the processes for

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Speaker 2: building consent authorities to work through building consents. As you're

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Speaker 2: pointed out in your introduction, there are sixty seven different

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Speaker 2: building councils around YOURSELD and we often have a different

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Speaker 2: interpretation of a building consent. Example, a designer a builder

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Speaker 2: in christ Urge maybe submitting a building concent in that

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Speaker 2: jurisdiction and that building concent of flying through without any

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Speaker 2: problems the same building consent presented, say in a white

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Speaker 2: categist as an example, what have some issues? And that

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Speaker 2: creates inconsistency, It creates time and delays. Time is cost

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Speaker 2: for a project.

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Speaker 1: Speaking of time wait times, we're hearing up to two

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Speaker 1: months for a building consent, eighteen months for a resource

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Speaker 1: concent Does that sound about rain?

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Speaker 2: Building consents have become down from where they were in

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Speaker 2: the peak. And remember Ian, it wasn't that long ago

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Speaker 2: that we were talking two years in fact, that we

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Speaker 2: have an artificial peak of fifty thousand building concent applications

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Speaker 2: in this country. The previous we've just got over forty

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Speaker 2: thousand two years before in twenty twenty one, and that

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Speaker 2: was the first time forty thousand have been exceeded since

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Speaker 2: the mid and eighteen seventies. So there's a lot of

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Speaker 2: pressure on the system right now. Building consents are tracking

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Speaker 2: through at a reasonable rate.

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Speaker 1: Okay, what about the private consenting providers? This is for inspections.

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Speaker 1: People are worried about this because of leaky homes and

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Speaker 1: if we reintroduce private consenting providers that you have more

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Speaker 1: problems on their hands. Would you are you okay with

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Speaker 1: that suggestion?

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Speaker 2: I'm more rather prefer some of the options they've been

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Speaker 2: looking at in this paper. Other options, and again there

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Speaker 2: is a lack of detail, but options along the lines

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Speaker 2: of regional bcas sort of amalgamation of some of those

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Speaker 2: existing bcas I would imagine, as we've been talking about

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Speaker 2: agency be our own submission to the regulator around a

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Speaker 2: large metro drawing and being unified with a number of

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Speaker 2: the smaller councils. They've got really good capacity within the

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Speaker 2: system itself, reads emerging creating greater We're all capacity within

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Speaker 2: those organizations to help us go be able to carry

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Speaker 2: it through. At the moment we're a little lower and

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Speaker 2: building contents more likely worthy just about four years before COVID,

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Speaker 2: but they'll up at again the next couple of years.

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Speaker 2: The government's quite quite right to look at this.

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Speaker 1: Now, all right. So it sounds like you they're doing

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Speaker 1: the right thing and how they're doing a different story, Malcolm,

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Speaker 1: Thank you for that. Malcolm Fleming, the New Zealand Certified

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