Selwyn · Selwyn District Council
Buying in West Melton? Check the property first.
Hazard layers, title types and school zones differ from one West Melton street to the next, so the useful answer is always address-level. Type the address and see what the records show, before you order a LIM.
What we check for West Melton addresses
- Title type from the record: freehold, cross-lease, unit title or leasehold, plus land details, nationwide.
- Selwyn District Council layers: flood layers, coastal inundation, erosion and instability, tsunami evacuation zones, liquefaction vulnerability, district plan zoning, designations, heritage overlays, other planning overlays.
- School zones, active faults, sun and aspect, and the area profile from national datasets.
Anything we cannot check for an address is labelled as not checked, never guessed. A LIM from Selwyn District Council remains the complete legal record.
Is West Melton in a flood zone?
Flood risk in West Melton varies property by property, so no suburb-wide answer is honest. Selwyn District Council publishes mapped flood layers, and the property check reads them for the exact address, alongside the title type and school zones.
Ordering the LIM next? See what a LIM costs, council by council, and what it covers that an online check cannot.