Also highlighted was that the government has an opportunity to mitigate any longer term effects of the current downturn by reducing the time it takes from "concept to build" by streamlining the consent process.

Maurice Willaimsons approach is to free up consent resource with the deregulation of low-risk construction – one of the proposed changes to the Building Amendment Bill (2) and the Resource Management Amendment Bill which is currently before Parliament.

Minister for Building and Construction Maurice Williamson says that one of the changes Government is currently looking at is removing consent from construction that it deems to be 'low-risk'.