Building & Planning

Building Section

Council has a building department which is responsible for both inside and outside Town Boundary. All building works require an approval by the Council and Town and Country Planning.

We have building inspectors who look after the building, subdivision & rezoning applications. A building permit is a confirmation that the building plans comply with the Council building code, building regulations and Town Country Planning requirements.

Sigatoka Town Council closely works with the department of Town & Country Planning to ensure that the plans are drawn to requirement standard. All building applications after being approved will require inspections which would be specified in the Council conditions.

For further information or enquiries please feel free to contact the building department on (679) 6500018 / 6520766 or email on building@sigatokatown.com.fj

Resilience Section

 

Council also has a resilience officer who looks after the Fiji Resilient Informal Settlements (FRIS) project financed by the Adaptation Fund provides support in addressing climate change and disaster risk issues in informal settlements. This is a four year project implemented by UN-Habitat and executed by the Ministry of Housing and Community Development (MHCD) and the Ministry of Local Government (MLG), which started in July 2018.

 

The main objective of the project is to increase the resilience of informal settlements that are highly vulnerable to climate change and disaster risk.

 

Operation of the Section

  • – Working on the Fiji Resilient Informal Settlement (FRIS) project in the two informal settlements Kulukulu and Vunikavika.
    – Conduct fieldwork in the two settlements to gather data to support the (FRIS) project.
    – Prepare maps for the project settlements.
  • – Prepare the field reports and submit to UN Habitat Team Leader.


Prepare reports to Chief Executive Officer of Sigatoka Town Council and UN Habitat Team Leader.