Welcome
If you are wanting to get plans for a building consent from your local council then
PlansMachine is a New Zealand owned and operated nation wide online house plan
draughting service for new or existing homeowners wishing to either build a new
house or alter their existing home.
Just like internet banking, online grocery shopping or buying and selling new or second-hand goods online
PlansMachine is also an online facility that now allows you the convenience to get your plans for building
consent in your own time while it is also very conveniently hosted on either your own computer or tablet.
To begin with you may either operate our user friendly DIY floor plan design facility, or instead upload your own
drawing scans or photos for us to draw your floor plan for you, or perhaps select from one of our existing
floor plan template designs and modify it to suit.
Whether it be a single or two storey home or perhaps an extension or internal modification to your existing
home the PlansMachine staff can make it happen for you much faster and more cost-effectively with our phone
chat, written message exchange facility, uploads and downloads pictures portal, which all together creates a
very convenient and streamlined information exchanging system for you.
The plans produced for you are provided via PDF in advance with no money down and you are not required to
pay us until your plans are obviously fit for their required purpose.
New homeowners
You can design a new home or alter your existing home with less cost and fuss via our online streamlined
interaction system.
Builders & tradies
We allow you to easily expand the range of your current services or provide greater convenience for your
potential customers.
About this online service
Your plans job will be assigned its own online portal folder and all messages or plans draft modifications will
remain accessible to you forever after.
Building consents
You may choose to either make this yourself or have us do it for you. Either way, we will deal with the council's
requests for further information where required as part of our agreement with you.
The process
click to select which project you require
New house
Alterations / additions
1
There are three ways
to begin this. You can
either draw your own
floor plan with our very
user friendly online
design system, or
instead you can upload
your concept design
scans, photos or PDF’s
to have us draw them
into our system for you,
or you can also choose
from one of our 100
single storey floor plan
templates and edit it to
suit.
2
We make sure that
your floor plan is
efficiently designed,
produce the basic
site plan and make
sure that it complies
with the necessary
council bylaws. You
may reciprocate this
process with us until
your preliminary design
is approved by you. We
will also provide you
with a quote to do the
full plan set.
3
We then produce your
full plan set working
drawings and then
provide you with a copy
of them for you to make
comment on.
4
You pay for the plans
and then become the
right of use owner of
them. You may also,
later on, make post
design modifications
but this will cost slightly
extra depending on the
requirement of it.
5
We guide you on
what to do to gather
all of the additional
information that is
often required to get
everything together to
complete the building
consent application.
6
The building consent
application is then
made by either you or
us.
7
We oversee the
councils requests for
further information and
advise you accordingly
if there is anything else
that you need to do.
8
Your building consent is
issued and your builder
may now start your
building work.
1
There are two ways to
begin. You can either
draw your existing and
proposed floor plans
using our very user-friendly online design
system or instead you
can upload scans,
photos, PDF’s of any
existing plans you
already have or perhaps
your own drawings, to
have us draw them into
our system for you.
2
We check your
alterations concept
proposal and modify it
accordingly if required
until the preliminary
design meets your
approval and if it is an
extension we will also
produce the basic site
plan and make sure
that it complies with
the necessary council
bylaws. We will also
provide you with a
quote to do the full
plan set.
3
We produce your
full plan set working
drawings and then
provide you with a copy
of them for you to make
comment on.
4
You pay for the plans
and then become right
of use owner of them.
You may also later
on make post design
modifications but this
will cost slightly extra
depending on the
requirement of it.
5
We guide you on
what to do to gather
all of the additional
information that is
often required to get
everything together to
complete the building
consent application.
6
The building consent
application is then
made by either
you or us.
7
We oversee the
councils requests for
further information and
advise you accordingly
if there is anything else
that you need to do.
8
Your building consent is
issued and your builder
may now start your
building work.
Pricing
click to select which pricing you want to see
New house
Alterations / additions
Step 1
If you use our floor
plan drawing facility
or edit one of our floor
plans templates this
will be free for you. If
you have us convert
your uploaded concept
design this will cost
between $1.20 and
$1.60 per m2 for the
overall house floor plan
size area, depending on
the complexity of the
building design.
Step 2
The very modest price
of $220 to make sure
that your building
design is efficient
and modify it via your
approval if need be.
This price also includes
us doing a standard site
plan to ensure that the
relevant council bylaws
are met.
Steps 3 & 4
$1990 for houses up to
100m2 in floor size and
$15 per m2 over this
size. Two storey houses
and additional features
to a standard design
will cost extra, please
see our price list for the
cost of these potential
additional requirements.
Steps 5-8
To make the building
consent application
yourself will cost you
nothing from us. To
have us act as your
agent to do so on
behalf with your council
costs $400.
Step 1
If you use our floor plan
drawing facility, this
will be free for you. If
you have us convert
your uploaded concept
design this will cost
between $1.20 and
$1.60 per m2 of floor
size, depending on
the complexity of the
building design.
Step 2
The very modest price
of $60 to make sure
that your building
design is efficient for
the alterations and
modify it if need be
and if it also includes
an extension to the
existing floor plan size
of your house then
there will also need to
be an additional $160 to
do up a basic site plan
to help ensure that all
of the relevant council
bylaws are met.
Steps 3 & 4
$750 base fee. Two
storey houses and
additional features to
a standard design will
cost extra, please see
our
price list for the
cost of these potential
additional requirements.
Steps 5-8
To make the building
consent application
yourself will cost you
nothing from us. To
have us act as your
agent to do so on
behalf with your council
costs $400.
All prices stated are exclusive of GST.