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Hutt County Council

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Tawa Borough Council, Building Permit Registers

Building Work

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Items in this Series (967)

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Hutt County Council, Tawa Property files

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Archives Identifier00124Date Range1920s-2005DescriptionThis series consists of documentation relating to building permit and consent applications for properties in Tawa, dating from the 1920s through to 2005. Depending when the applications were lodged they were processed by different territorial authorities; the Hutt County Council or Makara County Councils (before 1950), the Tawa Flat Town Board (1950-1954), the Tawa Borough Council (1954-1989), and from 1989 to 2005 the Tawa Service Centre of the Wellington City Council. From 1989 Building Permits or Consents relating to Tawa and the Grenada area were processed at the Tawa Service Centre. The system was set up in 1950 by the Tawa Flat Town Board; the records from earlier authorities were transferred to the Board. It remained in use right up until 2005 when the Service Centre was closed, and the files transferred to Archives.

Under the Bylaws of the various authorities, and from 1991 the Building Act, written application was required for permission to erect a building or carry out additions or alterations to an existing building. Applicants had to submit plans and documentation of the work proposed. If the work was in accordance with the bylaw and regulations a permit or consent was issued and the plans and documentation were held in the office of the Engineer.

Although documentation relating to each application was filed by a unique permit number, all permits or consents for a property were generally kept together in a single envelope. Documentation generally includes an application form, plan, and written specifications of the proposed work. The application form recorded details such as the applicant or builder, the owner, description of the work proposed, legal description and street the site is on, and an estimated value. Plans submitted depend on the nature of the work being applied for, but generally can include a site plan, floor plan, elevations and sections, and where necessary structural details. The written specifications outline what materials were used and the work done by the tradesmen involved. In general with repiling no plan was submitted, but a written specification provides detail of the work carried out.

As well as building permit and consent information the envelopes often also contain other information relating to properties, usually in relation to the applications made. Other information includes applications for land use consents under the Town & Country Planning Act or Resource Management Act (often the final notice of decision or Council approval), correspondence relating to gas or electricity connections, and sometimes property valuation or sale notices. There are also sometimes building plans or documentation where no permit number is given, or more general correspondence relating to land use or permissions for a property. As a minimum level all of the property envelopes are indexed by street address.Quantity (Linear Metres)78.2MediumFileSystem of ArrangementAlphabetical by street address. Generally a single envelope per property, although some have multiple envelopes, and associated rolls of plans. Top numbered across the series.

As items are requested and retrieved they are described in more detail, listing all the building permits, consents and other information contained in them.Collection TypeWellington City Council

Correspondence

225 Main Road, Tawa, correspondence relating to gas connection

161 Main Road, Tawa, correspondence relating to gas connection for three townhouses

99 Bell Street, stormwater connection to sewer

2 Kowhai Street, correspondence relating to gas connection

38B Ranui Terrace, correspondence about proposed vehicle crossing

12 Morgan Place, correspondence relating to approval of cross lease title

4A, 4B Kowhai Street, correspondence

3 Kowhai Street, floor plan for garage

72 Kiwi Crescent, correspondence relating to gas connection

10 St Catherines Terrace, gas connection

8 St Annes Square, application for drainage alteration

4 McLellan Street, gas connection

8 McLellan Street, correspondence relating to new gas connection

16 Chester Road, correspondence related to unauthorised sign

22 Chester Road, correspondence related to proposed right-of-way over 22 and 24 Chester Road

18 McLellan Street, correspondence relating to gas connection

8 Hampton Hill Road, correspondence

15 Hampton Hill Road, correspondence relating to gas connection

72 Raroa Terrace, correspondence relating to gas connection

90, 92 Oxford Street, Tawa, correspondence relating to new gas connection

16B St Edmund Crescent, correspondence for gas connections

37 Woodman Drive, valuation slip

32 Woodman Drive, valuation slip

Series

Tawa Borough Council, Building Permit Registers

WCC, Teamwork Service Requests (SR) - Earthworks, Vehicle Access and Building Consents

Document Folder

37 Collins Avenue

Access Information

Restriction StatusOpen

Related Agencies

Controlling/Creating AgencyHutt County CouncilRelationship Date Range1876-1989

Administrative Data

Described ByTrove 2019Date of Description30/5/2019Registration StandardDraftReferencesFour boxes of envelopes from accession 2006/10 processed onto the end of the seriesAdditional NotesAcquisition authority: Transferred via Gael Hunn, Team Leader Customer Services, BCLS. Acquisition notes: Accession number unknown; possibly 2003/9? But series created and set up at point of transfer. Property envelopes were transferred to Archives with the exception of envelopes containing consents not yet signed off; these were culled and transferred to BCLS Records. [8 March 2012] Boxes 290-293 processed into the series from accession 2006/10.

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Hutt County Council, Tawa Property files