2025/001: The purported decision to refuse to issue a building consent for reasons relating to the building’s use and means of escape from fire - 34 Jellicoe Street, Martinborough, South Wairarapa
- Abbreviation
- 2025/001
- Valid from
- 10/01/2025
- Information provider
- Ministry of Business, Innovation and Employment,
- Information type
- Determination,
- Format
- PDF,
Description
This determination considers an authority’s purported decision to refuse to issue a building consent for alterations and an addition to an existing building.
The matter turns on whether the proposed building work would have resulted in a change of use for the building and whether the building would have complied as nearly as reasonably practicable with clause C4.3 of the Building Code relating to means of escape from fire.
Decision
In accordance with section 188(1)(b), it has been determined:
- there were not grounds for the authority’s purported refusal based on the premise the building would undergo a change of use from SH to another use, and
- the proposed escape route for the residential unit complied as nearly as is reasonably practicable with clause C4.3 of the Building Code.