Fee Waivers Fund

The Fee Waivers Fund (FWF) is a regulatory fee waiver reimbursement for some fees and charges relating to facilities, projects or activities that are for local community use and provide local community benefits.

These charges include resource and building consent fees.  

All fees must be paid before an application is made. Applications must also be for no more than one third of all eligible fees paid.

Funding available

An amount of $5,000 (per financial year) has been set aside for distribution to the community. The amount is decided each year through the Councils Annual Plan (budgeting) process.

Criteria

The following factors are taken into account when assessing the eligible applications:

• Community Assistance Fund (CAF) policy and guidelines requirements and criteria.
• The level of community benefit provided
• The level of community use and ongoing involvement with the facility, project or activity
• Status of the group applying (for example Charitable Trust, voluntary group)

Fees that can be supported are:

• Project Information Memorandum Fees
• Building Consent Fees: plan processing fee, planning check fee, inspection fee and code compliance certificate fee
• Land Use Consent Fee: (including site visit and formal report)

 Please note: applications will be considered ineligible if the do not enclose copies of receipts with the application form.

Application form

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Application form (Size 137K)