Co-Lab Building Services

Co-Lab Building Services is a collaborative initiative between seven councils across the Waikato and Bay of Plenty regions. Together, we’ve created a shared service designed to process and deliver building consents on behalf of participating Building Consent Authorities (BCAs) to help smooth out the peaks and troughs in building consent volumes, ensuring a more efficient and responsive consenting system across the region.

By working together, we aim to:

• Share capacity across councils to better manage fluctuating workloads
• Build and strengthen technical capability across the BCAs
• Provide a more consistent and resilient service for our communities

Participating Councils:

• Hamilton City
• Hauraki District Council
• Matamata-Piako District Council
• Thames-Coromandel District Council
• Western Bay of Plenty Council
• Waikato District Council
• Waitomo District Council