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Online payments, Report it and online enquiries outage

Due to planned maintenance, our online payments, Report It and online enquiries will be unavailable from 5:30pm to 9:00pm on Wednesday 14 May 2025.
You can still pay via your internet banking and you can phone our after hours service.
We apologise for any inconvenience this may cause.

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Buildings and natural disasters

Information about what to do with your building after a natural disaster, and our work to identify earthquake-prone buildings.

 

Buildings and emergencies

Information about making buildings safer, what to do in emergency and exemptions for damage caused by natural disasters to buildings.

Earthquake-prone buildings

Information about our work to identify potentially earthquake-prone buildings within the District.

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