Information Gathering

I will,

• Obtain and review your certificate of title information for legal requirements, easements, access, covanents and third party interests.

• Review council records, to ascertain the consented history of your property, access to and servicing of your site, existing buildings on the site, previous council and consultant correspondence and existing use rights that may be available to you. It may also be necessary, particularly if your property is outside Nelson, to obtain a Project Information Memarandum from the relevant territorial authority.

• Review likely implications of resource management planning rules, local authority design guides and heritage considerations for early indications of Resource Consent requirements.

• Advise you as to the need for the engagement of other specialist consultants. These may include geotechnical consultants for hill side sites, planning consultants for notified resource consents, engineering consultants to provide technical and structural services and surveying consultants to provide accurate site information.  A survey of property boundaries and site contours, and positions of existing buildings on the site will almost certainly be required.