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Start with simple, standardised forms
The rst visible sign that GoShift is up and running will be the introduction over the next few months of simplified and stand- ardised consent application forms across all 22 councils. Other parts of the consent process such as approvals and inspections will be standardised over the next 6–12 months.
MBIE General Manager Building System Performance Derek Baxter says MBIE is supporting the councils’ joint e orts because they’ve taken a solid leadership position on something they have the ability and mandate to change for the better.
‘GoShift councils have committed to making it easier for their building customers to do business with them by reducing the complexity of their processes and sharing them with other councils’, he says. ‘This means customers will have consistent building consent experiences, no matter which council they are dealing with.
‘One participating council has had, up to now, 26 di erent kinds of building consent application forms. GoShift will reduce that to just two.’
End-to-end online consents
GoShift is being developed in conjunction with Wellington City Council’s digital work management programme, which aims to put the whole building consent process online.
This work is still in the design phase, but when it goes live, it will enable GoShift to go to the next level. This means offering participating councils that have not yet gone digital the full range of building consent services online, from the point of application to approval of the completed building.
Some councils whose building consents aren’t currently digital have indicated they are watching with interest, intending to adopt a similar approach once the digital work management programme is proven.
Participating councils
Carterton District Council
Central Hawke’s Bay District Council Horowhenua District Council
Hutt City Council
Kapiti Coast District Council Manawatu District Council Marlborough District Council Masterton District Council
Porirua City Council
Rangitikei District Council
Ruapehu District Council
South Taranaki District Council South Wairarapa District Council Stratford District Council
Tararua District Council
Tasman District Council
Upper Hutt City Council
Whanganui District Council Wellington City Council.
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