Assignment Submission Guidelines

Submitting your Assignment

Notes You must submit your work through the assignment submission link on Online Campus. Upload your assignment, then use the ‘Save’ and ‘Submit assessment’ buttons. You will get an electronic receipt and your work is then logged and tracked through our system. Open Polytechnic will not accept assignments emailed directly to lecturers. Open Polytechnic takes plagiarism seriously. Before you start your assignment, make sure you’ve read How to avoid plagiarism. This assignment focuses on the learning you have done in Modules 4 and 5. The assignment consists of four tasks:•Task 1: Resource Management Act 1991.•Task 2: District plans.•Task 3: Building law.•Task 4: Building styles.Learning outcomes You will be assessed on the following learning outcomes:•Explain key points of the law relating to resource management. •Explain key implications of the Building Act as they apply to licensees including compliance requirements and non-compliance implications. •Describe New Zealand housing styles and structures in accordance with industry requirements and identify and describe different types and conditions of internal and external building elements. Assignment scenario You work in a real estate agency in your local area. Your office is working with a real estate developer who has resource consent to develop a greenfield subdivision called Mata? Valley. The subdivision will have a mixture of housing types. There will be a small retail and commercial centre. Task 1: Resource Management Act 1991You have a customer, Cindy, who has recently emigrated to New Zealand and is hoping to buy a home in Mata? Valley. She explains to you that one of the main reasons she chose to move her family to New Zealand was because of the ‘clean and green’ image of this country