We would like to erect a shade sail as a car port, opposed to an actual carport which quotes have came in at 10k! Anyway when it come to a shadesail the building code states it can't be with 1m of our boundry. As this is purely to be used to protect our car and would be taken down if we were to sell, do you have to follow the code? Just to make to clear the boundry that this shadesail would be on is beside farmland so no neighbour.
wenpen,
Jul 30, 9:42pm
You can get a dispensation form the district council providing you get the neighbours approval. I did this for a garage I moved on, the neighbour signed the permit. Think it cost me $75 for the dispensation. My neighbours dwelling is 60 meters away.
How far are your neighbours dwelling from the boundary.
Edit to say I am rural also.
amasser,
Jul 31, 10:38am
Did you look at kitset carports? Few years ago you could erect a single without a consent.
pauldw,
Jul 31, 12:59pm
There would probably be the same limits on location. Paint the roof to confuse any council type looking at the latest aerial photography for unconsented buildings.
jojo76,
Jul 31, 2:57pm
Yeah i got 2 quotes both came in at just under 10k one was through total span and cant remember the other! Hence why were looking at a shade sail system.
That was for them to come out and install.
in regards to how close is my neighbour? we are next to a run off/cropping farm. it would be 300m to the closest house on that farm (farm owners)
budgel,
Jul 31, 5:44pm
On rural land I would just go ahead and install it. Who other than you is going to worry about it?
As biggles45 says, that seems expensive. Forget the brand, but quite sure that it wasn't Trade Tested, and less than $2,000 then.
jojo76,
Aug 2, 1:19pm
thanks for the link to the trade tested website, we have taken a liking to the cantilever carport. Yes we are in a high wind area (Norwesters) but the driveway is more on the E wide of the house. So it is recommeneded a depth of 60cm for concrete footings we could go a wee bit deeper for more stability, we can have it within a metre of our boundry (cant find any info to say i cant) and it is less than 10k. Think we may be onto a winner
colin433,
Aug 4, 3:04pm
Trade Tested is a good firm to deal with. We were very happy with what we bought from them
tegretol,
Aug 6, 11:40pm
Doesn't work - they have LIDAR on their drones now and do their work at night when it's dark. They even know if you've added or subtracted a guttering as the sensitivity is claimed to be +/- 10mm at 500m height.
pauldw,
Aug 7, 9:19am
Who would get the larger fine, me for my woodshed or the Council operating a drone at night above private property which AFAIK is completely against Civil Aviation rules? The usual aerial photography done at a greater height has warnings about parallax error wrt boundaries as the camera can't be directly above every point. +/- 10mm would take a lot of hovering about that wouldn't go unnoticed.
jules286,
Aug 7, 1:55pm
The Council do look at aerial photos, as I went into ask about putting a carport in the front of the section. At the back of the section I had laid black polythene to cover a huge vege garden, so the weeds wouldn't grow while I was working on other projects. I got questioned to what building I was erecting. Plus the last aerial photo had only been taken a couple of months prior, and I had the roof repainted, from this photo I could see the crappy roof painting that I'd just paid for, as the painter hadn't evenly coated the roof, couldn't see from the ground, but certainly from the top. Painter told me he had been having problems with his spray gun (yeah right) those photos come in handy:-).
pico42,
Aug 7, 3:05pm
Parallax error? For boundaries vs aerial imagery?
jojo76,
Aug 8, 1:30pm
Talk about red tape :( so I contacted the council (my husband had a nah nah) they wouldnt directly answer my questions, so no matter what I want to erect solid carport or shadesail it cannot be within 1m of our boundry or 4.5 from the front and all buildings cannot account for more than 35% of our total section.Which leaves me with several issues. The house is self does not sit 4.5m from the boundry, and the garage where the caport would sit in front of is only 60cm from the boundry. I have a large wood shed and a garden shed, which would have to be included one would assume in the 35% rule, how about a deck? But a shade sail isnt a building and can be removed if need be, so the 35% rule shouldnt apply? - but quess what they said it will!
All ill say is the council are a bunch of muppets and couldnt give me any answer really, I can apply for a boundry activities resource consent at a cost of $235 (neigbours sign it) - all about making money for them it seems, soon need a consent to shit.
mrfxit,
Aug 9, 9:57am
" soon need a consent to shit." Already do, it's a toilet tax on sewage volumes & number of toilets basis
mrfxit,
Aug 9, 9:58am
Talk to the ppl next door, if they are fine with it, just ask them to sign a note to say they agree & date it.
amasser,
Aug 9, 10:09am
Can the council staff make a decision on whether somebody there can make a decision? Keep moving up the food chain. Somebody decided that you could apply for a B.A.R.C., so all hope is not lost (yet).
budgel,
Aug 9, 11:26am
In cases like this I always take the view that it is easier to ask for forgiveness than permission!
sanders4,
Oct 10, 9:18am
very cool!
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