Relaxing Building Consent and Inspections: 28 September 2024

Relaxing Building Consent and Inspections.

I am not for this at all.

Facing a 90% reclad of 14 homes that are two years old is why.

Clad by LBPs, supervised by LBPs and RoWs by LBPs. Shocking workmanship and substitutions (undeclared).

Only picked up because I wouldn’t stop asking questions in spite of being pushed back.

Thankfully, the construction company management changed along with their approach. All is being remediated BEFORE serious issues emerge because the new team is a good team.

No, please do not relax it… oh, and might I add, it was a MasterBuilder!

https://www.nzherald.co.nz/business/companies/construction/ex-master-builders-chief-david-kelly-wants-building-consent-system-relaxed/CWCNPB2RWRHCTA7Y7QN3J3GCCU/

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Kirsty Merriman
For years I would plan houses, travel widely and observe communities. I also had the privilege of working for New Zealand's largest dairy company in both New Zealand and Malaysia. All the while supported by my husband and young daughter. After a while, our roles swapped and we moved to the Arabian Gulf. Meanwhile my passion for property and communities continued to simmer.

Along came COVID and had no choice but to pivot... in the words of Robert Frost, I looked for and "found the road less travelled by" and decided that maybe I could "make [a] the difference".

I look for to find insights and built a few of the houses that we need. This means a saleable house and a profitable and sustainable business.

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