Consent Median Timeframes
Find out how many consent applications are in process at Environment Canterbury, including totals for different activity types
The following figures are provided as a guide to resource consent applicants on the likely timeframe for processing consent applications for certain activities. The figures show the median number of working days between the receipt of an application and the decision on the application for non-notified, limited notified, and publicly notified consent applications within Canterbury over the past 6 months. Median timeframes have been given for each activity type that has had 5 or more decisions on applications in the past 6 months. Activities that have not had 5 or more decisions in the past 6 months are not shown below.
In the past 6 months Environment Canterbury has receipted 1001 Applications
and decided 939 Applications.
At present there are 776 applications in process.
NOTE: These figures are an approximation only and do not indicate future processing timeframes.
| ActivityType | Non-Notified (Working Days) | Limited Notification (Working Days) | Public Notification (Working Days) |
| Discharge from Bulk Material Proc | 11 | | |
| Discharge from Lge Scale Burner | 11 | | |
| Discharge from Sml Scale Burner | 10 | | |
| Discharge from Animal Efflnt Spread | 16 | | |
| Install a Bore/Gallery | 9 | | |
| Construct/Remove a Bridge | 13 | | |
| Stockpile Effluent/Organic Waste | 16 | | |
| Install/Remove a Culvert | 11 | | |
| Discharge of Contaminated Water | 16 | | |
| Deposition of Material | 14 | | |
| Disturb Bed | 17 | | |
| Discharge of Stormwater-Industrial | 16 | | |
| Discharge of Stormwater-Residential | 13 | | |
| Discharge of Water- Pure | | | 318 |
| Earthworks | 17 | | |
| Discharge of Dairy Effluent | 16 | | |
| Discharge of Human Effluent | 14 | | |
| Discharge of Other Animal Effluent | 16 | | |
| Excavate Material | 16 | | |
| Excavate Gravel Long Term | 10 | | |
| Take Groundwater | 16 | 72 | 275 |
| Hazardous Substances Storage Abv Grnd | 16 | | |
| Construct/Remove a Structure | 17 | | |
| Dam Surface Water | 16 | | |
| Divert Surface Water | 17 | | |
| Take Surface Water | 17 | | 465 |
| Clear Vegetation | 20 | | |
| Discharge from Waste Mngt Processes | 16 | | |
| Works to Divert Water | 17 | | |