Determination 2025/040

POSTED: 08/16/2025

An authority’s purported decision to refuse to grant a building consent in respect of a bamboo cladding system and the accompanying appraisal.
The Appraisal was provided by BEAL: Certificate # C2248* ‘The Bamboo X-treme Cladding System’

Summary
This determination considers an authority’s purported decision to refuse to grant a building consent for a new dwelling with a proposed bamboo cladding system. The reasons for the purported refusal come from the authority’s requests for further information and correspondence and relate to a *BEAL appraisal certificate provided in respect of the bamboo cladding system.

Decision
5.1. In accordance with section 188 of the Building Act 2004, I determine the authority provided insufficient reasons to purportedly refuse to grant building consent BCO10387092 in respect of the bamboo cladding system and I therefore reverse the authority’s purported decision.

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