5. Lodge my application
Putting together a consent application is complex; however, the clearer you describe what you want to do and where you want to do it, the easier the process of lodging an application will be.
The application process is outlined in detail below. You will need to use our application forms and possibly some of our online tools to help. You can also find out information on current resource consent fees and charges.
Once you feel your application is ready, please submit it with the initial payment via email, post or in person.
After you have lodged your application, we have 10 working days to let you know if you have given us enough information to proceed to the next step.
- What you want to do
- How you want to do it
- Where you want to do it
- When you want to do it
- Why you want to do it
We need to know where your proposed activity is related, in relation to nearby features.
For all applications:
- Is the property registered on the Listed Land Use Register?
- What is the distance to any significant environmental, historic or cultural sites?
You can check for these using the Canterbury Maps database and Canterbury Maps Biodiversity & Ecological database
Please also refer to the Ecological Criteria Guidelines. N.B. This report was prepared by Wildland Consultants under contract to Environment Canterbury and does not endorse this consultancy above any other for application of RPS criteria.
In general, for a new consent, you will need to:
- Identify the relevant regional plan
- Identify the relevant rules in the plan.
Your Assessment of Actual and Potential Effects on the Environment (AEE) will need to include:
- Identification of any affected parties
- Effects on the environment
- Possible ways of avoiding, remedying or reducing any adverse effect identified
- Possible alternatives to the proposal
- Positive effects.
Read the Ministry for the Environment guide. Please also refer to the Ecological Criteria Guidelines.
Payments can be made via internet banking as detailed below, by credit card through our Customers services team on 0800 324 636, or by cheque.
Internet banking
Bank: ASB
Account Name: Environment Canterbury
Account Number: 12-3151-0059468-00
Reference: Customer Number (EC) or Invoice Number
Credit card
Contact our Customer Services team on 0800 324 636 to make a payment over the phone.
Cheque
Send a cheque to Environment Canterbury, PO Box 345, Christchurch 8140.
Useful tools
- Aquifer constant discharge test form (PDF File, 26.67KB)
- Aquifer step drawdown test form (PDF File, 38.1KB)
Guidelines and analysis tools for reviewing aquifer tests, for proposed consents or for compliance with consent conditions
Use a model that has been field validated and shown to reliably predict annual irrigation volume within an accuracy of 15 per cent.
The annual volume calculated using the model shall be complaint with the following criteria:
- an irrigation application efficiency of 80 per cent
- a system capacity to meet peak demand (half a litre per second per hectare)
- a nominal irrigation season from September 1 to April 30, and
- demand conditions that occur in nine out of 10 years.
Download the IrriCalc Guidance Document (PDF File, 59.29KB) for detailed information.
- Section 1 sets out the criteria and requirements for a model and its application to estimate seasonal irrigation water use and to set seasonal irrigation water use limits.
- Section 2 is dedicated to providing guidance on how to calculate a farm's seasonal irrigation water limit using the IrriCalc maps.
- Section 3 provides answers to some of the main questions associated with using the IrriCalc model.
You will need the following information from your pumping schedule:
- The maximum volume (actual or intended) per Return Period. Return Period is the time (in days) between successive irrigations.
- Length of return period (actual or intended).
To find this information:
- Check the consent details sent to you from Environment Canterbury or search using our consent finder.
- The instructions on the use of the spreadsheet show how to determine the maximum volume if it is not explicitly stated in an existing consent.
You will also need to know:
- the area (in hectares) to be irrigated
- land-use type (actual or intended) e.g. arable, intensive pasture
- Profile Available Water (PAW)
- effective irrigation season rainfall.
To find this information:
Information on Profile Available Water (PAW) and effective irrigation can be obtained using Canterbury Maps.
To use the spreadsheet for calculation:
- Download the Annual volume calculator analysis (XLS File, 61KB).
- Keep the consent details, Canterbury Maps and the instructions open while you use the calculator.
- Course date: as needed
This is a one-day workshop for those who are involved or interested in the building, operation, maintenance or decommissioning of measures set out in erosion and sediment control plans. This workshop provides a background understanding of erosion and sediment control methods and the environmental effects of sediment.
To register: erosion.sediment@ecan.govt.nz
Course fee: TBC
Course 2: Introduction - For Consultants, Local Authority Staff and Earthwork Site Managers
- Course date: as needed
This is a one-day workshop for consultants (who lodge consent applications for earthworks and stream works, prepare assessments of environmental effects and erosion and sediment control plans in support of these and who call for tenders for the approved works), site contract managers, local authority staff (involved with policy, consenting and compliance associated with earthworks and stream works) and those wanting a detailed working knowledge of erosion and sediment control.
This workshop provides a background understanding of erosion and sediment control methods and the environmental effects of sediment. Time is also spent visiting a greenfield development site and preparing an erosion and sediment control plan.
To register: erosion.sediment@ecan.govt.nz
Course fee: TBC
Conditions of training courses:
- The site visit is reliant on availability and is not guaranteed. We will always do our utmost to include a site visit but if situations arise beyond our control then this may not be part of the workshop.
- Registration confirms placement for attendee in the required workshop. If for any reason the attendee is unable to attend the workshop then a minimum of 48 hours notification to the workshop organiser is required. The ideal situation (should the registered attendee not be able to attend the workshop) would be that the registered attendee arrange a substitute to take the original attendee's place.
- Cancellation of an attendee outside of the 48 hours minimum notification without replacement will incur the schedule workshop fee.
- Attendance is limited to 20 people at each workshop.
Builder's pocket guide
People who are constructing houses on small sites or companies managing the construction of commercial sites can refer to the builder's pocket guide for small sites (PDF File, 1.78MB).
Erosion and sediment control guidelines
The erosion and sediment control guidelines is a set of guidelines for anyone involved with any type of earthworks on the land or near water—projects large and small. They provide guidance for minimising the adverse effects of erosion and sedimentation while planning, constructing and maintaining a project.
Resource Consent application forms
Resource consent application forms and associated documents are grouped by type below. Please contact us if you need help finding anything. Completed forms should be sent to the email address quoted on the application forms.
Discharge dairy effluent and to store dairy effluent CON080
- Application form PDF (PDF File, 314.81KB)
- Application form Word (Office Open XML Document, 235.12KB)
- Notes (PDF File, 376.67KB)
Farming activities: Region wide and Sub regional – CON501
The CON501 application form (Office Open XML Document, 290.2KB) may be used when applying for a land use consent to use land for farming for an individual property or farm enterprise covered by the region wide and sub regional sections of the Land and Water Regional Plan (LWRP).
Find your relevant nutrient zone applicable to your property or farm enterprise.
Environment Canterbury has prepared a Planning Assessment Form that sets out the relevant planning provisions for the respective zones under the region wide and sub regional sections of the LWRP:
- If you choose not to use the Planning Assessment Form, please provide your own planning assessment of the activity against the relevant planning provisions.
- If your property or farm enterprise covers multiple nutrient zones under the LWRP, you must include a separate planning assessment for each zone applicable.
Farming activities: – Red Nutrient Allocation Zone – CON501A
Farming activities: – Orange Nutrient Allocation Zone – CON501B
Farming activities: – Lake Nutrient Allocation Zone – CON501C
Farming activities: – Green and Light Blue Nutrient Allocation Zone – CON501D
Farming activities: – Alternative Pathway – CON501E
Farming activities: – South Coastal Canterbury – CON501F
Farming activities: – Waimakariri – CON501G
- (also assess region wide rule);
- Planning Assessment Form (Office Open XML Document, 426.67KB)
Farming activities: – Waitaki – CON501H
Farming activities: – Orari – Temuka – Opihi - Pareora – CON501I
- (also assess region wide rule);
- Planning Assessment Form (Office Open XML Document, 429.32KB)
Farming activities: – Lower Hinds / Hekeao Plains – CON501J
Farming activities: – Upper Hinds / Hekeao Plains – CON501K
Farming activities: – Selwyn Te Waihora – CON501L
Small scale burners outside Christchurch Clean Air Zone (CCAZ) – CON300
- Application form PDF (PDF File, 173.1KB)
- Application form Word (DOC File, 409.5KB)
- Planning assessment (PDF File, 93.52KB)
Authorisation of an ultra low emission burner/low emission burner or pellet burner – CON301
- Application form PDF (PDF File, 415.73KB)
- Application form Word (Office Open XML Document, 175.33KB)
Discharge to air – spray coating – CON302
- Application form PDF (PDF File, 448.12KB)
- Application form Word (Office Open XML Document, 593KB)
Discharge to air: Crop residue burning – CON303
- Application form PDF (PDF File, 413.08KB)
- Application form Word (Office Open XML Document, 197.35KB)
- Planning assessment (Office Open XML Document, 202.49KB)
Take and use of groundwater – CON200
- Application form PDF (PDF File, 242.25KB)
- Application form Word (Office Open XML Document, 138.57KB)
- Planning assessment (PDF File, 139.31KB)
Discharge stormwater into land – CON060
- Application form PDF (PDF File, 273.89KB)
- Application form Word (DOCX File, 147.54KB)
- Conditions for CON060 – Land (PDF File, 27.3KB)
- Conditions for CON060 – Construction, Land (PDF File, 21.02KB)
- Planning assessment PDF (PDF File, 110.44KB)
- Planning assessment Word (Office Open XML Document, 513.08KB)
- Notes (PDF File, 66.29KB)
Discharge stormwater into surface water – CON061
- Application form PDF (PDF File, 271.05KB)
- Application form Word (Office Open XML Document, 204.18KB)
- Conditions for CON061 – Water (PDF File, 37.46KB)
- Conditions for CON061 – Construction, Water (PDF File, 36.34KB)
- Planning assessment PDF (PDF File, 108.01KB)
- Planning assessment Word (Office Open XML Document, 114.24KB)
- Notes (PDF File, 66.29KB)
Discharge of contaminants into land from an onsite wastewater system – CON070
- Application form (PDF File, 420.25KB)
- Application form Word (Office Open XML Document, 276.23KB)
- Planning assessment PDF (PDF File, 117.06KB)
- Planning assessment Word (Office Open XML Document, 187.86KB)
Install or alter a bore – CON001
- Application form PDF (PDF File, 522.08KB)
- Application form Word (DOC File, 531.5KB)
- Notes (PDF File, 101.8KB)
- Planning assessment PDF (PDF File, 116.23KB)
- Planning assessment Word (Office Open XML Document, 117.72KB)
Land use including works in or within 7.5 metres of the beds of lakes and rivers – CON020
- Application form PDF (PDF File, 198.54KB)
- Application form Word (DOC File, 484KB)
- Planning assessment (PDF File, 132.78KB)
Extraction of gravel – CON050
- Application form PDF (PDF File, 259.67KB)
- Application form Word (Office Open XML Document, 116.47KB)
- Planning assessment PDF (PDF File, 121.38KB)
- Planning assessment Word (Office Open XML Document, 119.02KB)
- Rule assessment sheet (Office Open XML Document, 53.7KB)
Application for resource consent – CON499
- Application form PDF (PDF File, 201.44KB)
- Application form Word (Office Open XML Document, 237.96KB)
Application for a certificate of compliance – CON120
- Application form PDF (PDF File, 86.06KB)
- Application form Word (Office Open XML Document, 67.19KB)
Application for a certificate of existing use – CON121
- Application form PDF (PDF File, 125.5KB)
- Application form Word (DOC File, 215KB)
Change of name for application in progress – CON500
- Application form PDF (PDF File, 28.93KB)
- Application form Word (DOC File, 132.5KB)
Written approval of persons likely affected – FORM8A
- Application form PDF (PDF File, 142.44KB)
- Application form Word (DOC File, 197KB)
Withdraw application for a resource consent – CON530
- Application form PDF (PDF File, 10.77KB)
- Application form Word (DOC File, 112.5KB)
Transfer of resource consent – CON540
- Application form PDF (PDF File, 145.47KB)
- Application form Word (Office Open XML Document, 195KB)
Partial transfer of resource consent ground surface water – CON541A
- Application form PDF (PDF File, 130.39KB)
- Application form Word (Office Open XML Document, 284.72KB)
Partial transfer of a discharge consent – CON541B
Please send completed forms to ecinfo@ecan.govt.nz
- Application form PDF (PDF File, 100.99KB)
- Application form Word (Office Open XML Document, 102.78KB)
Partial transfer of resource consent – CON541C
- Application form PDF (PDF File, 100.99KB)
- Application form Word (Office Open XML Document, 102.78KB)
Transfer of water permit to another site – CON542
- Application form PDF (PDF File, 54.57KB)
- Application form Word (DOC File, 199KB)
Full surrender of resource consent – CON550
- Application form PDF (PDF File, 57.72KB)
Partial surrender of resource consent – CON551
- Application form (PDF File, 109.49KB)
Application to amend water metering condition and reduce rate of take on consent – CON552
- Application form (PDF File, 125.15KB)
- Application form Word (Office Open XML Document, 24.24KB)
Change of address – CON560
- Application form PDF (PDF File, 18.83KB)
- Application form Word (DOC File, 114.5KB)
Change or cancel conditions – CON570
- Application form (PDF File, 148.46KB)
- Application form Word (Office Open XML File, 328.5KB)
Flowmeter and datalogger installation – CON580
- Application form PDF (PDF File, 194.54KB)
- Application form Word (DOC File, 194KB)
Flowmeter verification form – CON581
- Application form PDF (PDF File, 174.94KB)
- Application form Word (DOC File, 148KB)
Non-standard installation approval
- Application form PDF (PDF File, 72.31KB)
- Application form Word (DOC File, 136.5KB)
Open channel and partially filled pipe installation and commissioning
- Application form PDF (PDF File, 57.54KB)
- Application form Word (DOC File, 130.5KB)
Bore log report
- Application form PDF (PDF File, 154.43KB)
- Application form Word (DOC File, 108.5KB)
Submission on resource consent application – CON520
- Application form PDF (PDF File, 134.56KB)
- Application form Word (DOC File, 167KB)
Submission on an application for a resource consent by a person on whom notice of the application has been served – CON521
- Application form PDF (PDF File, 84.24KB)
- Application form Word (DOC File, 125KB)
Withdrawal of right to be heard – CON522
- Application form PDF (PDF File, 25.55KB)
- Application form Word (DOC File, 159KB)
Withdrawal of submission lodged – CON523
- Application form PDF (PDF File, 25.47KB)
- Application form Word (DOC File, 159KB)
More information
- Swing mooring, slipway and Navigation Safety Bylaw forms are in the Harbourmaster's Office section.
- As further forms are developed, they will appear on this page. In the meantime, you may need a form which is only available directly from Customer Services. Please contact us if you have any questions.