All you ever needed to know about Land Information Requests.
Environment Canterbury may hold information on natural and physical resources that may be relevant to a property. This information has always been available. However, Environment Canterbury wants to make the information more accessible.
What information is included?
- Resource Consents/Wells – resource consent and well details associated with the specific property.
- Groundwater – general information on wells and groundwater quality in the vicinity of the property. Note, groundwater quality information for properties with a reticulated water supply should be obtained from the authority supplying the water.
- Flood Risk – from various rivers, including some floodplains, previous flood levels and risk categories. For flooding information in the Christchurch residential area, contact the Christchurch City Council.
- Contaminated Site – information about contaminated sites and sites that have the potential to be contaminated because of the land use activities undertaken on them.
- Earthquake Hazard – earthquake hazard information for some areas. This includes, where available, information on known active earthquake fault locations, ground shaking hazard, liquefaction potential, earthquake-induced slope stability potential and tsunami hazard. (Note that most of this information is general district-scale information for an area, and may not be specific to individual properties)
- Pest Enforcement – properties that have been subject to a Notice of Direction or charge under the Biosecurity Act 1993 related to the control of plants or animals specified as pests in the Regional Pest Management Strategy.
- Surface Water – quantity and quality information for some rivers and streams. Note, surface water quality information for properties with a reticulated water supply should be obtained from the authority supplying the water.
- Erosion Risk – for some areas.
- Land Improvement Agreement - these are specified on the Certificate of Title. If the certificate of title does not specify a Land Improvement Agreement, then a search for this type of information is unnecessary.
- Air Quality – general information in some urban areas.
How to request a LIR
By completing a Land Information Request form. These are available:
When to request a LIR
A land information request will be processed within 10 working days of receipt of the request. Therefore it is strongly advised that when a Land Information Memorandum is requested from a Local Territorial Authority that a Land Information Request is applied for - at the same time - from Environment Canterbury.
Please contact Customer Services for the current charge.
Payment must be made on application. Accepted methods of payment are cash, cheque, EFTPOS, credit card.
Contact
Please refer to our Contact page »
Phone 03 353 9007 or 0800 32 4636
Fax 03 365 3194
Email ecinfo@ecan.govt.nz