A MODULE OF RESILIENCE EXPLORER®
Resilience Explorer® | Property enables you to issue compliant LIMs and defensible consent decisions on every property in minutes.
Built for NPS-NH and the new LIM regulations. So you can meet your hazard disclosure and decision-making requirements.
Councils are increasingly required to assess and communicate future natural hazard risk consistently across LIMs, consenting, and planning workflows. For many teams, this still relies on fragmented datasets, manual GIS analysis, and staff interpretation (NPS-NH, 15 January 2026 | LIM, 17 October 2025).
Resilience Explorer® | Property brings hazard data, climate scenarios, risk classifications, mapping, and report generation into a single operational workflow, producing consistent, regulation-aligned outputs directly from council-approved datasets.
LIVE IN
4 to 8 weeks
From a signed agreement. Data integration with your hazard layers is the variable.
What we typically see across deployments
45 to <5 min
Reduction in external hazards consulting spend on screening-level assessments
50 to 90%
Reduction in LIM hazard-section processing time
50 to 70%
Reduction in external hazards consulting spend on screening-level assessments
2 to 8 months
Typical payback on the annual licence
CASE STUDY | HAMILTON CITY COUNCIL | LIM WORKFLOW
“Resilience Explorer offers an efficient solution for researching individual parcels. It generates a concise PDF document that integrates seamlessly into the existing LIM template, providing assurance that our reports are accurate and based on the most up-to-date information, thereby minimising the risk of human error.”
— Hamilton City Council, quoted directly. The quote refers to the LIM workflow.
These figures are Urban Intelligence's generalisations across observed deployments, including Hamilton City Council. They are not Hamilton's verbatim claims and specific results vary by council size and current process baseline. Resilience Explorer® | Property delivers comparable outcomes when council data and workflows are in place.
LIVE IN
Four shifts have changed what councils have to disclose, and how.
ONE
September 2025
Less Crown safety net
Cabinet's September 2025 decision signalled a Crown withdrawal from post-event buyouts. Your consent and LIM decisions carry sharper legal and political weight than they did in mid-2025.
TWO
17 October 2025
New LIM regulations live
Since 17 October 2025, all councils must present natural hazard information in LIMs in a consistent, regulated format, with mandatory disclosure of known hazards and a transparent methodology.
THREE
15 January 2026
NPS-NH in force
The National Policy Statement for Natural Hazards 2025 came into force on 15 January 2026. Councils must now have regard to it when making consent decisions. Seven hazards. A standardised risk matrix. A direction to use the best available information. Excludes infrastructure and primary production (clause 1.3(2)).
FOUR
2028 outlook
Council amalgamation ahead
The amalgamation and Planning Bill reforms are moving councils towards 17 regional combined plans and fewer, larger entities. Resilience Explorer® | Property works at district scale today and at regional scale tomorrow. Your hazard evidence base and risk records travel with whatever entity emerges in 2028.
TWO OUTPUTS, ONE ENGINE
One data engine. Two compliant outputs.
Resilience Explorer® | Property runs two parallel workflows on the same underlying data. The LIM workflow serves your customer-facing team. The consent workflow serves your planners. Both pull council hazard data in automatically. Both come with a full audit trail.
FOR LIM TEAMS
LIM Hazard Section Report
LIM Officers, LIM Coordinators, Customer Services teams
Trigger
A LIM request lands against a property address, typically via your existing customer portal or property files system.
Process
Resilience Explorer® | Property retrieves the property's hazard profile from your council data layers, applies your LIM disclosure rules across the seven NPS-NH hazards plus any council-specific ones, and captures the data lineage in an audit trail. Your LIM Officer reviews, adds any property-specific commentary, and approves.
Outcome
A LIM Hazard Section Report in the LGOIMA section 44B-compliant format, ready to append to the full LIM. Under five minutes from request to approved output. Every report carries the data lineage required under the October 2025 regulations. The archive is searchable, exportable, and survives staff turnover.
Sample LIM Hazard Section Report available at walkthrough.
FOR CONSENT PLANNERS
NPS-NH Property Risk Report
Consent Planners, Resource Consent Officers, Planning Managers
Trigger
A resource consent application is lodged for an activity on a hazard-exposed site, picked up at section 88 completeness or section 95 notification screen.
Process
Resilience Explorer® | Property generates the property-level risk assessment automatically. Likelihood and consequence pulled from your hazard layers, classified against the Appendix 1 matrix as Low, Medium, High, or Very High. The 100-year climate-adjusted scenario runs alongside the present-day case (Policy 6). Data sources, model versions, and methodology are recorded for the Policy 5 audit trail. The consent planner reviews, applies proposal-specific judgement on mitigation and cascade risk, and produces the section 104 assessment.
Outcome
An NPS-NH Property Risk Report that supports a defensible consent decision. Resilience Explorer® | Property removes 2 to 4 hours of data compilation per consent. The report attaches directly to the section 95 or 104 file.
Nine-page PDF · 5.6 MB · No mailing list.
WHAT IT DELIVERS
Implementing Resilience Explorer® | Property enables a council to:
ONE
Make effective use of ratepayer money.
Cut staff time on LIM and consent hazard work by 50 to 90%, reduce external hazards consulting spend on screening-level work by 50 to 70%, and avoid the 0.5 to 2 FTE growth in planning headcount that NPS-NH and the new LIM regulations would otherwise require. Most councils see a 2 to 8 month payback on the annual licence.
TWO
Provide a faster service and protect the council's reputation.
Shorten LIM turnaround from days to hours, eliminate the consent-processing bottleneck that the new NPS-NH classification work has created, and avoid the kind of public-confidence damage that surfaces when LIM backlogs hit the media.
THREE
Stay compliant with in-force regulation and avoid downstream liability.
Meet the LGOIMA section 44B obligations live since October 2025, satisfy NPS-NH Policy 5 (best available information) on every consent decision with a full audit trail, and reduce the personal and council-level exposure that follows from the Crown's withdrawal from post-event buyouts.
WHAT IT COSTS | WHAT IT SAVES
Pricing is published. So is the return.
These figures are Urban Intelligence's generalisations across observed deployments, including Hamilton City Council. They are not Hamilton's verbatim claims and specific results vary by council size and current process baseline. Resilience Explorer® | Property delivers comparable outcomes when council data and workflows are in place.
WHAT IT COSTS
Council size
Population
Annual licence
Size 1
Under 10,000
$13,100
Size 2
10,000 to 35,000
$13,100
Size 3
35,000 to 100,000
$13,100
Size 4
100,000 to 200,000
$13,100
Size 5
Over 200,000
$13,100
Multi-year commitments. Three-year terms attract a 7.5% discount on annual licence. Five-year terms attract 15%.
All prices in NZD, GST exclusive.
Already a Resilience Explorer® client? Resilience Explorer® | Property is included as a feature of the Professional and Enterprise tiers. Talk to your Customer Success contact about activation. No new procurement needed.
WHAT IT SAVES
FAQ'S | QUESTIONS BUYERS ASK
The questions that come up before booking a walkthrough.
BUYING & CONTRACTING.
Is Resilience Explorer® | Property included if we already have Resilience Explorer®?
What happens to our data and outputs if we end the contract?
IMPLEMENTATION & IT
How quickly can Resilience Explorer® | Property be live for our council?
What does our team need to provide?
METHODOLOGY & SCOPE
How does Resilience Explorer® | Property handle hazard data that is missing or incomplete?
What if our hazard models change, or our council updates its data?
Does Resilience Explorer® | Property replace our GIS team or our hazards consultants?
What does Resilience Explorer® | Property NOT do?
How are risk levels calculated?
For a technical buyer's view of how risk is calculated, see the Resilience Explorer® | Property methodology page.
