Category 2P decision information for property owners

Mitigations for 2P properties will be funded

We recognise that funding any mitigation to reduce the risk to life from flooding or landslide is out of reach financially for many homeowners.

The Governing Body has confirmed that if your home is a Category 2P, we will provide financial support to help you make the changes to your property that we identify as necessary to reduce the risk to life.

Category 2P properties are those where:

• council has identified there is an intolerable risk to life from extreme weather and
• changes to the property can reduce the risk to a tolerable level.

We call these changes 'mitigations'.

On Thursday 26 October 2023, the Governing Body made decisions about Category 2P properties.

See Property risk categories for more information.

Key Category 2P decisions

The key decisions are:

• We will fund mitigations for Category 2P properties to reduce the risk to a tolerable level.
• The affordability of mitigations for Category 2P properties is set at 25 per cent of a property’s CV. This means that for a house with a $1 million CV, mitigations that cost up to $250,000 are considered feasible and your home can be assigned a Category 2P.
• The mitigations need to be able to be completed within two years.

The Category 2P Property Risk Mitigation Scheme will provide funding through two grants. The grants will support homeowners to scope and complete building work to reduce the risk at their property to a tolerable level:

• A design and consent grant to help homeowners get the technical advice and consents they need to confirm the project’s feasibility.
• A construction grant supporting the homeowner to complete the consented works.

Homeowners are responsible for managing the work, including finding professional services and tradespeople to complete it.

Normal building consent and resource consent requirements still apply for work to reduce risk at Category 2P properties.

For more information, see Category 3 buy-out offer and Category 2P mitigation affordability.

More information

A guide for 2P Homeowners with further details about the scheme is being developed and will be available shortly.