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Series Part 2: An Outline of the Subdivision Process – Practicalities from a Surveyor’s Perspective

Step 1 is a focus on investigating whether a particular site can feasibly be subdivided. This is typically a desktop assessment that considers the site itself, the relevant District Plan rules, the infrastructure and services (or lack of) to the site and other relevant information.The initial investigation seeks to garner some confidence that the site can be subdivided under the relevant rules but also identify the areas of risk for the proposed subdivision. Some subdivision risk comes from the ...

Series Part 1: An Outline of the Subdivision Process – Practicalities from a Surveyor’s Perspective

A subdivision needs a resource consent to subdivide the land. However, to complicate things, many subdivisions will also require the simultaneous development of the land – being the construction of the residential units that are ultimately intended. Those developments will also need resource consent for that specific land use. For the purposes of this article (and subsequent articles in the series), I’ll be focussing on subdivision consents but will highlight some things that will be ne...

Understanding Cross Lease Titles: Important Considerations, Common Issues and Solutions

What are cross lease titles? A cross lease title is a combination of owning a share of the entire parcel of land and having a right to lease a building on that land. Refer to the plan below. For this example the underlying land is Lot 1 on DPS 2626....