NZ Building Consent Notice Monitor

Finds New Zealand council building consent, resource consent, public notice, and submission notice links from public council pages. It crawls supplied or default council sources one level deep, extracts notice links with evidence context, classifies notice type, parses common NZ dates, extracts simple street addresses, and emits property-monitoring rows.

Inputs

• sourceUrls: Council homepages, consent pages, or public notice pages to crawl.
• regions: Optional hints for known council sources: Auckland, Wellington, Christchurch, Canterbury.
• useDefaultSources: Use built-in council sources when no explicit source or known region is supplied.
• maxItems: Maximum notice rows to emit.

Explicit sourceUrls are used as-is and do not silently mix in default sources.

Default discovery sources

• https://www.aucklandcouncil.govt.nz/
• https://wellington.govt.nz/
• https://ccc.govt.nz/

Output fields

• recordType: Always consentNotice.
• sourceUrl: Normalized notice URL.
• title: Notice title inferred from link text.
• council: Council inferred from source hostname.
• address: Simple street address extracted from nearby evidence when present.
• noticeType: buildingConsent, resourceConsent, submissionNotice, or publicNotice.
• publishedDate: ISO yyyy-mm-dd date when present.
• confidence: Evidence score from 0 to 1.
• evidenceText: Link text and nearby page context used for classification.
• capturedAt: ISO timestamp for the run.

Example input

{
  "sourceUrls": ["https://wellington.govt.nz/"],
  "maxItems": 100
}

Example output

{
  "recordType": "consentNotice",
  "sourceUrl": "https://wellington.govt.nz/consents/2026-07-08-12-queen-street",
  "title": "Resource consent application 12 Queen Street",
  "council": "Wellington City Council",
  "address": "12 Queen Street",
  "noticeType": "resourceConsent",
  "publishedDate": "2026-07-08",
  "confidence": 0.9,
  "evidenceText": "Published 8 July 2026. Resource consent application for 12 Queen Street. Resource consent application 12 Queen Street",
  "capturedAt": "2026-07-08T00:00:00.000Z"
}

Limitations

This actor uses static HTML link extraction and simple text heuristics. It does not parse attached PDFs, interactive map results, or JavaScript-only portals. Address extraction is intentionally conservative.

Local validation

npm test
npx --yes apify-cli validate-schema

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