Announcement: We are excited to have started working with Selwyn District Council (SDC) to help use our technology to streamline their consent processing.
SDC are the fastest growing district in New Zealand and experienced a 48% increase in applications over the last year. On top of this, their new district plan recently became partially operative which adds additional complexities to decision-making.
"2024 has been exceptionally busy for the Selwyn planning team, with record numbers of RC applications in the door." - Emma Larsen, Head of Resource Consents at Selwyn District Council
Naturally, staying on top of statutory decision timeframes amidst an influx of applications has created a challenge, but one SDC is tackling head on.
"Rico is a key part of our action plan to improve our timeframes and deliver a quality resource consent service, by streamlining planning assessments, removing administrative tasks and allowing our planners to focus on the planner stuff that requires their skills and expertise."
We got SDC up and running on Rico within 2 months to help them process decisions and conduct building consent planning checks and will continue to work together to deliver efficiencies so SDC planners can automate unnecessary admin, get decisions out faster and deliver better service to their community.
"... Rico have been fabulous to work with and so accommodating. We are looking forward to ramping up our productivity, efficiency, accuracy and consistency in the coming months!"
SDC media release here.
Watch this space!
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