Timaru District Council
Moving a mid-size council off a legacy system
Timaru District Council moved to myWorksites in 2025, running both systems side by side for six months so nothing in progress had to be re-lodged. It went live in July 2025.
The starting point
Timaru District Council had been using a legacy application system for corridor access. It did the job of receiving permits, but it wasn't evolving, and it gave the Council no shared picture of what was happening across the network or on the state highways running through the district.
How the move worked
The Council took a transition licence from January to June 2025. During those six months both systems ran in parallel: applications already in progress finished on the old one, and new work started on myWorksites. Contractors moved across as their jobs wrapped up rather than all at once, and many of them already knew the platform from state highway work.
Configuration, conditions, fees and training were set up during the transition, and the Council went fully live in July 2025, at the start of the financial year.
Why it matters for councils like Timaru
Timaru is a great reference for a mid-size council worried about the disruption of switching. It runs the same platform as NZTA and Auckland Transport, scaled to its district, and it moved without stopping work or asking contractors to re-lodge anything.
- CARs and TMPs a year
- 1,500+
- of applicants also work on another myWorksites network
- 78%
- working days median to a CAR decision
- 2
Thinking about switching?
We'll walk you through what a transition like Timaru's would look like for your council, and introduce you to someone who has done it.