Quantity surveyor David Baker has launched a new website designed to make it easier for Kiwis to challenge council costs and hold local government to account.
Baker set up the site after he noticed council fees and delays were pricing homeowners out of the market and pushing builders to the wall. “It just grinds my gears when we see people in council just throwing six figures of costs away, and builders in the private sector are having a really hard time,” he told RCR’s Paul Brennan.
Baker is urging anyone unhappy with council pricing to visit the site and lodge a concern. Listen to RCR’s interview with David Baker.
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This is great. Our council needs an audit of spending and wastage. Plus we need to know exactly how many staff and what their oles are because I bet the council would function better with half of them gone. So over paying such exhorbitant rates. The cpu cil don’t provide a service unless you call gate keeping or ticket clipping a service.