Deemed permitted boundary activities

Deemed permitted boundary activities

An activity is a boundary activity if:

  • resource consent is required under the Southland District Plan (SDP) due to the infringement of one or more ‘boundary rules’, and
  • no other SDP rules are infringed, and
  • the ‘infringed boundary’ is not a public boundary such as a boundary with a public park, road, river or the coast.

The SDP has rules and performance standards in each zone that may qualify as ‘boundary rules’ as follows:

General Residential Zone           

GRZ-PS2 – Minimum Yard Requirements

GRZ – PS5 – Height in Relation to Boundary

General Rural Zone

GRUZ-R1 (3)(a)(i) – Residential Accessory Buildings

GRUZ-R1 (4)(c)(ii) – Accessory Buildings

GRUZ-PS6 – Height of Buildings in Relation to Boundaries

General Industrial Zone

GIZ-PS3 – Height in Relation to Boundaries

GIZ-PS4 – Yards

Low-Density Residential Zone - Te Anau Residential Zone B

LDRZ-TRZB-PS1 (d) – Setbacks from Roads and Internal Boundaries

LDRZ-TRZB-PS3 (b) – Height Controls Rule 14.10.6 – Height in Relation to Boundary

With your application you will need to supply us with:

  • a description of the activity;
  • a plan (drawn to scale) of the site at which the activity is to occur, showing the height, shape, and location on the site of the proposed activity;
  • the full name and address of each owner of the property with an infringed boundary; and
  • written approval from each owner of the property with an infringed boundary, including their signatures on the plan.

Your application for a deemed permitted boundary activity can be lodged with us via our online portal; via email to sdc@southlanddc.govt.nz; or in hard copy at a Council office.

Our preferred method of lodgement is via the online portal, however application forms are available for submitting via email or in hard copy.

You will also need to pay the relevant application fee as per our current fees and charges.

If we agree that your proposal is a boundary activity, we will provide you with a written notice stating that the activity is permitted. We have 10 working days to provide this, and unlike a resource consent application, we cannot request further information.

If you make an application for a boundary activity but don't provide the information listed above, or we determine that other rules are infringed, then your activity doesn't qualify and we must return the application to you.

Similarly, if you make an application for resource consent, but we determine that the application actually qualifies as a boundary activity (and includes all the necessary information), then we must return your consent application and will provide you with a written notice stating that the activity is permitted.

We can be contacted by email sdc@southlanddc.govt.nz or by phoning the customer service team on 0800 727 059.