And then there was a piece of paper that said “yes”
To be honest it’s more like half a tree of copies of the plans we submitted sent back, signed by the council’s chief planner as being approved. We have been granted planning approval for the development!!!
All said and done it was 50 days between lodgement with a single round of clarifications and amendments, before we got the approval.
As we were all wide eyed and slack jawed with what needed to be done, I need to send out a big “thanks” to Aaron at the council who took on our case and was truly easy to deal with.
Now, we just need to get all the engineering paperwork back so we can get started on the building consent approval which covers the various building codes and so on we are required to adhere to.