2025Colby Kelly-NashWellington carpenter Colby Kelly-Nash had his licence cancelled after the board identified “a pattern of taking funds and not completing the building work“. Adair carried out and supervised building work on new homes in Beckenham, but council inspections showed the work didn’t follow the approved building consent and had serious problems. Utiku Turoa TysonUtiku Turoa Tyson had his building licence cancelled after substandard work on a kitset dwelling in Whanganui that was described as “verging on incompetence”. “There was a distinct lack of care and attention paid to how the building work was carried out in a pattern of non-compliance, which was disconcerting. Inspections of the work by the Building Consent Authority and other practitioners found “extensive non-compliant building work”, especially in how the wall and roof cladding had been carried out.

Source: New Zealand Herald January 18, 2026 16:33 UTC