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From "is this even possible?" to the day we hand over the keys.

Most first-time developers underestimate the number of moving parts. Most experienced ones underestimate how much it matters that those parts move in the right order. Here's how we run every Ashcroft project — consent-in to keys-out.

Seven stages, one team

A pathway built for Auckland sites.

You don't have to understand every technical step. But you should understand the sequence — because understanding the sequence is how you know whether a quote is real. These are the seven stages every Ashcroft project moves through.

01

Free site evaluation

You send us the address. We return a first-pass yield assessment — what the zoning, site shape and frontage will actually allow. Standalone, duplex or terrace. Rough build-cost range. PDF summary you can keep.

Typical turnaround: 1 working day · Cost: $0
02

Concept and feasibility

If the site has legs, we sit down with you to design a concept that matches the land — not a template dropped on top of it. Preliminary yield numbers, an indicative build cost, and a sharper read on the consent pathway.

Timeline: 2–4 weeks · Outcome: go / no-go / explore further
03

Resource consent

Our planners drive the application and walk it through Auckland Council. We handle RFIs (the council's "please explain" requests), attend commissioner hearings if required, and communicate weekly on where the consent sits.

Timeline: 8–16 weeks depending on zone and complexity
04

Engineering and building consent

While RC is in progress we start structural, civil and services design. Once resource consent is granted, we lodge building consent — usually a single structured package rather than a sequence of amendments.

Timeline: 6–10 weeks · You see every cost line as it firms up
05

Construction

Siteworks, foundation, frame, exterior, interior, services. Weekly progress updates with photos. A fixed-price contract. An open-book cost plan you can audit at any time. Your project director is on site every week and reachable by phone every day.

Timeline: 5–9 months depending on typology and unit count
06

Subdivision and titling

Where the project requires subdivision (most of our terrace and duplex builds do), we run the 223/224 certificates through council in parallel with construction — not after — so titles are ready at handover.

Runs alongside construction · No lost weeks at the end
07

Handover and ten-year guarantee

Pre-handover walkthrough with you and the project director. Snag-list resolved before settlement. Certificate of Code Compliance lodged. And then the part most of our clients notice most: the ten-year structural guarantee, the back-up hotline, and a builder who still picks up when you call.

And then — the quiet part — we show up when you call, for ten years
Completed Ashcroft terrace development.
Why the sequence matters

The reason projects blow out is almost never the build.

It's almost always a consent decision that got made without talking to the engineer, or an engineering decision that got made without talking to the builder, or a building decision that got made without talking to the surveyor.

We run these conversations before they become problems. That's the single biggest reason our projects hold their shape through the hard parts — not because we work harder than the next builder, but because the right conversations happen in the right order.

Start with a free site evaluation