Short Term Accommodation Consent Changes Welcomed – Hotel Magazine

Proposed modifications to consents for short time period visitor accommodation in residential areas in Christchurch is currently being welcomed by Hospitality New Zealand but is contacting for policies on constructing consents to be extra.

“This is a reasonable conclusion but to make it an enduring coverage the Town Council needs to contain rules and suggestions notes on developing consents,” claimed Hospitality New Zealand Canterbury Department President Peter Morrison.

“They need to make it clear to any one wanting to start off a customer lodging exercise that they will have to have to attain a setting up consent for a improve of use.

“The council has skirted over this concern in its choice but it should transpire.

“There are currently lots of structures and residences – most likely 2000-3000 – at this time currently being applied for visitor lodging that do not have the necessary creating consent for the improve of use from household to commercial.

“Many, if not all, of them will not have the proper hearth systems and accessibility as demanded beneath the Constructing Act, and that is a substantial legal responsibility challenge for each the homeowners and the council in the celebration of a hearth or earthquake that leads to damage or reduction of life,” said Morrison.

Having the policies very clear in the District Approach would significantly aid address this situation.

“Motel and hotel operators are needed by law to have these consents, and there is a substantial disparity in how the council administers equally the District Prepare and the Developing Act in this regard,” Morrison extra.

“It wants to be tidied up and manufactured very obvious to all concerned particularly what is anticipated of them.”