Holiday alert: Please note that kerbside collections between 25-27 December and 1-3 January will be pushed out a day (even recyclers need a holiday). For more on Rubbish & Recycling in our district, see our dedicated webpage.

Council offices will close at midday Wednesday 24 December 2025 and reopen 8.00am Monday 5 January 2026. For urgent issues, call us on 03 441 0499 (Queenstown) or 03 443 0024 (Wānaka). For non-urgent issues, please us the Snap Send Solve App. We hope you have a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!

Surrender a resource consent

Unuhia tētahi whakaae ā-rauemi

If your resource consented activity has finished, or you no longer need a resource consent, you can surrender it. 

  • To surrender a resource consent you will need to complete a surrender of consent application form (s138) - downloadable below. 

    Please submit the completed and scanned document via the Community Portal using the "current resource consent" option

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  • Please refer to our charges and fees page for the charges that will be incurred for a surrendering a resource consent. 

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  • A planner will assess the request to surrender. In deciding whether to approve the request, the planner may consider matters such as the conditions of consent or a related consent, any works already undertaken, or how the surrender may impact other consents.

    Depending upon the consented activity, the assessment may include a site visit by the planner or may require a report by the consent holder to confirm works undertaken or conditions that have been met.

    We aim to complete assessment and the surrender transaction within 20 working days. There is a fixed fee for requests to surrender consent which must be paid before processing of the request begins.

    You remain responsible for compliance with conditions, annual charges (if applicable) and monitoring fees until we have confirmed the surrender.

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Contact us

Our Duty Planner will be happy to answer any questions you may have regarding surrendering a resource consent.