Find the right services for your project
Work with a local team that understands commercial and industrial development across Northland, Auckland, and the Waikato. From early feasibility and investment decisions through to design, consenting, and delivery, we provide integrated services to help move your project forward with confidence. Start with feasibility and planning, or connect with a specialist service depending on where your project is at.
We support a wide range of commercial project types:
-Industrial parks and warehouse developments
- Retail centres and mixed-use commercial developments
- Office and business parks
- Commercial land subdivisions
- Civic facilities
- Childcare, schools and retirement facilities
- Site redevelopment projects
Feasibility and development strategy
Planning and approvals
Design and technical inputs
Infrastructure and site requirements
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Comprehensive commercial and industrial development services
Commercial and industrial projects can require input across planning, infrastructure, design, surveying and environmental matters.
Cato Bolam supports projects across Northland, Auckland and the Waikato, bringing together the right expertise at the right stage. Whether you need advice on one specific issue or coordinated input across several disciplines, our team can help identify the most practical way forward.
Early advice and development strategy
The right starting point will depend on your site, project stage and the decision you need to make.
Our advisory team can help clarify priorities, identify the technical work required and establish a practical pathway before more detailed design or consenting begins.
Planning and approvals
Commercial and industrial projects may involve resource consents, land use changes, infrastructure requirements or more complex planning pathways.
Our planners can provide strategic advice, prepare consent applications and support private plan changes where required, working closely with engineering and other technical disciplines.
Design and technical inputs
As projects progress, planning, site layout, infrastructure, access and environmental requirements often need to be considered together.
Cato Bolam can coordinate architecture, civil engineering, surveying and specialist technical inputs so key design decisions are aligned and unnecessary rework is reduced.
Infrastructure and site requirements may include water, wastewater, stormwater, utilities, transport access, flood assessment, geotechnical input and land contamination investigations.
Delivery and coordination
For projects requiring broader coordination, Cato Bolam can provide project management, design management and lead-consultant support through consenting, design and delivery.
Finding the right support for your project
This helps keep the relevant consultants, approvals and technical workstreams connected as the project progresses.
You may need one specialist service or a coordinated team across several areas.
Use the service links above to explore the support most relevant to your project, or talk to our team if you are unsure where to start.
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Commercial and Industrial FAQS
Yes. Our team can carry the preferred development strategy into resource consenting, surveying and subdivision, civil engineering, architecture, ecology, detailed design, construction support and project completion.
Yes. We can prepare development costings for land development and infrastructure works from consenting through detailed design, engineering approvals, construction and completion. These technical costs can help inform the wider commercial feasibility and investment assessment.
Yes. High-level concept testing can compare building footprints, access, loading, yards, parking, servicing, infrastructure, subdivision and staged development options before a preferred direction is advanced.
For existing commercial or industrial sites, we can also assess how buildings, access, infrastructure and available land could support expansion or redevelopment.
Yes. We can tailor the scope to the available timeframe and prioritise the issues most likely to affect the purchase or development decision. Where something cannot reasonably be confirmed within that period, we can identify the remaining risk and recommended next steps
Ideally before purchasing a site or committing to a development concept. It can also be valuable when considering expansion, redevelopment, subdivision, a change of use or significant new investment in an existing property.
We can advise on the Council requirements for whatever development you propose. We can then provide any consultancy services required for obtaining resource and building consents, including architecture if the development involves a new building.
Our architects are experienced and skilled in a wide range of commercial and industrial developments. Our architects work with our planners to ensure our clients' needs are met in a way that also satisfies Council requirements and ultimately provides what we are proud to be involved in – creating great places.
We can provide advice on whether a proposed development is possible under the zoning and rules that apply to the land. We can also check on whether conections are available to services and whether there are any other constraints that may apply to the land.
You should approach us as early as possible to see whether the development meets Council rules and whether there are any constraints to development, such as access to services.