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Speaker 1: Hopefully the heat is coming down on the amount of

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Speaker 1: red tape and cost that we're facing with this shake

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Speaker 1: up to the Resource Management Act. And for a bit

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Speaker 1: of reaction, I managed to pin down Steve Pears, who

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Speaker 1: is a local builder. So often we hear the letters

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Speaker 1: are m A and we shudder, a thorn in the

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Speaker 1: side of builders and developers. How small issues can lead

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Speaker 1: to big delays and big cost. Is that your experience,

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Speaker 1: Steve certainly, is like everything.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, they want to add and keep adding simple things

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Speaker 2: and nob you can make a judgment call. You've got

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Speaker 2: to apply for it. You get it's very simple, but

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Speaker 2: it's just a cost that I don't understand.

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Speaker 1: So on that front, it's all.

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Speaker 2: Good, I think so. But Joy's nervous when they bring

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Speaker 2: something new and we say everything in the government they

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Speaker 2: take things away to make things easier, but it never

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Speaker 2: happens like that. It's going to be proof. It's going

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Speaker 2: to be in the pudding.

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Speaker 1: Officials estimate up to forty six percent of consent and

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Speaker 1: per and it could be removed. So a lot of

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Speaker 1: the stuff extending the deck, you know, maybe modifying a room,

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Speaker 1: it'll be allowed by default.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, Look in the old days, everybody did renovations on

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Speaker 2: their home and they were they were capable of people today.

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Speaker 2: I've come across a lot. I do a lot of

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Speaker 2: building inspections, come a lot, come across a lot of

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Speaker 2: things that are done right or wrong. But everything has

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Speaker 2: to be signed off and ticked off and work redone

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Speaker 2: at the moment and put back through council as people

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Speaker 2: buying home, So open the floodgates to that.

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Speaker 1: Very good point. If Luke sitting there going you know what,

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Speaker 1: I could do that myself, You're going to want to

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Speaker 1: get that checked many times over.

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Speaker 2: Yeah. But even like you might have me as mate

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Speaker 2: and say, hey, Steve, where they're thinking, I can tell

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Speaker 2: you what's right. But like the things they're saying, like

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Speaker 2: if your households down on top of you, it's only

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Speaker 2: done some work on that and it's not right. Who's libel?

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Speaker 2: You know? Yeah, that's why we get it all signed off,

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Speaker 2: We get it done right and checked on that.

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Speaker 1: Getting consent it requires working with a local authority, which

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Speaker 1: for us is the Ashburton Council. How have you found

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Speaker 1: them to deal with.

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Speaker 2: As parts of the council? Very pro with all the

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Speaker 2: builders and growth.

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Speaker 1: What I sense from this new legislation, a big catalyst

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Speaker 1: is that there must be a lot of councils around

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Speaker 1: the country that are incredibly uncooperative and that must just

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Speaker 1: do your head and when you do, all you're trying

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Speaker 1: to do is do a job right correct.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I think we're very lucky in this town. We

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Speaker 2: have a good man that runs the building, very proactive

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Speaker 2: with us builders and it comes to our master build

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Speaker 2: meetings and very approachable and I think I think that

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Speaker 2: joins the gap. It'll be a lot better if all

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Speaker 2: councils were the same, you know, involved with their builders,

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Speaker 2: understanding our hard issues that we have to deal with.

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Speaker 2: But the thing is, if just going to be proactive

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Speaker 2: with us. It's not a lot of things that they

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Speaker 2: need to work on, but it's just making it easier

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Speaker 2: for both of us, you know. And also we're going

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Speaker 2: to do our path by supplying all the information and

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Speaker 2: doing things correctly as well.

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Speaker 1: What's interesting to spot on a council front is they

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Speaker 1: can no longer under this legislation refuse projects based solely

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Speaker 1: on amenity or preferences such as your front door needs

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Speaker 1: to be there instead of there, or the look of

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Speaker 1: you facade. Do you encounter much of that, Oh.

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Speaker 2: Not really, No, most of it all makes sense.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, saying we've got common sense here in Ashburton, stop it. Hey,

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Speaker 1: while I've got you, Steve, you reckon, you could squeeze

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Speaker 1: in a quick project for me between now and Christmas.

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Speaker 2: No, not.

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Speaker 1: In the throes of harvest day.

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Speaker 2: Yeah we are mate. Yeah, it's like a countdown on

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Speaker 2: certain days. But no, I haven't got any speed days

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Speaker 2: at all.

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Speaker 1: Head down, bum up. Well, bring on tradey day and

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Speaker 1: hopefully a well earned break at some point. Really appreciate

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Speaker 1: your perspective this morning, all Rose. Right,