About Consented

Christchurch · Made for property and planning professionals

Why we exist

Christchurch City Council publishes every resource consent received and issued across the district. It is, in theory, public. In practice, it is a cryptic spreadsheet with no map, no search, no alerts, and no summary, buried in a corner of the council website where almost nobody looks.

Meanwhile the people whose work depends on knowing what is moving through the planning system, where, and by whom (the planners, surveyors, engineers, developers, and property professionals of this city) are manually checking registers, paying for patchy second-hand information, or finding out weeks late.

Consented exists to close that gap. We take the council's raw RMA consent data, refreshed daily, and turn it into something a working professional can actually use: personalised email digests on your chosen cadence, and a live dashboard you can filter by suburb, applicant, or consent type.

What we believe

Public data should be usable. Information that gives one side of a market an advantage over the other shouldn't be locked behind friction. It should be in front of the people who can act on it. Our job is to remove the friction and put the signal in your inbox before your competitors find it.

We are not a council. We are not a real-estate portal. We are not an AI startup chasing a trend. We are a small Christchurch team building a focused tool for one city and four kinds of professional. We plan to be very good at exactly that before we are anything else.

Who Consented is for

  • Planning consultants. Tracking new applications, decisions, consent types, applicants, and suburb-level planning activity in one cleaned dashboard.
  • Surveyors and civil engineers. Monitoring subdivision and land-use movement across Christchurch, spotting active areas, and keeping an eye on repeat applicants and sites.
  • Developers and landowners. Following suburb trends, neighbouring activity, applicant movement, and development patterns before they become obvious.
  • Commercial property teams. Understanding where planning activity is heating up, what types of consents are moving, and which suburbs deserve attention.

One flat plan, $69 NZD per month, everything included. No tiers, no upsells, no “contact sales”.

Where we're going

Christchurch first. We will get this right for one city before we think about a second. Future expansion will be announced when the data, the people, and the local knowledge are all in place. Not before.

If you want to know more, or you have feedback on what would make Consented more useful to your work, get in touch. We read every message.