Shed, Sleepout and Garage Rules to Be Relaxed

Government takes trimmer to garden shed and sleepout red tape

By the end of the year, you’ll be allowed to build your garden shed or small sleepout right up to the boundary. Your garage only needs to be 1m away.

Garden shed, sleepout and garage rules to be eased by government

Previously sheds had to be as far from a property boundary as they were tall.

Green Light For Garden Sheds And Garages

Cabinet has agreed to remove the minimum required distance between single storey buildings under 10 square metres and a property boundary or other residential building (setback distance).

Shed, sleepout and garage rules to be relaxed

The Building and Construction Minister says people shouldn't be "bogged down in bureaucracy" when making use of their own backyard. Photo: Getty Images By Anneke Smith of RNZ  Consenting rules for small garden sheds, sleepouts and garages are being changed by the coalition government.

Green light granted for garden sheds and garages

New Zealand homeowners building garden sheds, sleepouts, or garages are set to face less red tape and fewer delays. Stock photo supplied Andy Watkins on Unsplash Thanks to the ‘Red Tape Tipline’, homeowners building garden sheds, sleepouts, or garages will face less red tape and fewer delays by the end of this year, Regulation Minister David Seymour and Building and Construction Minister Chris Penk say. Cabinet has agreed to remove the minimum r…

New Rules Ease Backyard Building Red Tape

Homeowners tired of wrestling with consent paperwork to erect a modest garden shed or hobby room are set to receive welcome relief. Cabinet has signed off new setback rules that scrap the mandatory distance between a boundary and single-storey buildings smaller than ten square metres, and shrink the distance to one metre for buildings up to thirty square metres. Until now, most structures had to sit as far from the fence as they were tall unless…