Info: Accessing the application portal. We’ve upgraded security, so existing users must re-register. We’ve emailed a link, valid until 15 October. To re-register later, email contact@fasttrack.govt.nz for a new link.
Info: If you registered and last used the portal before 13 October 2025, recent enhancements mean you’ll need to re-register.
Fast-track application portal user guide – re-registration for existing users (PDF, 656 KB)
Who uses the application portal?
The Portal is a secure platform used by all participants in the Fast-track process – applicants, panel members and conveners, administering agencies and consenting authorities, Ministers, and other parties invited to comment or provide technical reports.
Depending on the type of access you’ve been granted, the portal enables you to:
create, submit and view applications (including tracking the progress of a substantive application throughout its review and approval process)
request feedback or reports on substantive applications from relevant parties
receive notice of requests, administration tasks and correspondence
respond to requests and provide feedback and comments
upload, download and manage documents
check correspondence on an application.
You’ll only be able to access applications that you have created, or that have been assigned to you by the Fast-track team.
Getting access to the portal
The Fast-track team will provide you with access to the application portal based on your role in the Fast-track process. For applicants, this happens during the pre-application process. For other users, this happens the first time you are assigned to an application.
You will be invited by email to register for the portal using a unique invitation code link. To complete the process you will also need:
the email address used to invite you to the Portal (if you want to use a different email address, you’ll need to contact us so that we can update your contact details and send you a replacement invitation code link)
a unique password of 12 to 64 characters long (including spaces) that includes at least 3 of the following – lowercase letters, uppercase letters, numbers, symbols (like @, # or %)
a phone number that enables you to receive verification codes by SMS or phone call – an additional authentication step that is required each time you sign in to the Portal.
This guide and short video will step you through the process.
Fast-track application portal user guide – portal registration and password reset (PDF, 877 KB)
Video: Fast-track application portal – registration and login
Creating an application in the portal
Referral and substantive applications must be submitted using the relevant digital form provided in the Fast-track application portal in accordance with section 13(2) and (5) (referral applications) and section 43(1)(a) and (4) (substantive applications) of the Fast-track Approvals Act 2024.
Applicants can securely submit an application, track progress, receive notices and provide responses through the portal. You can save draft versions of an application, and edit or update it, until such time as you formally select ‘Submit’ in the portal.
If you become aware of an issue with your application after submitting it in the Portal, for example you’ve omitted a document in error, please contact the Fast-track team immediately.
Here are links to some useful guides and short videos that step through the process:
Fast-track application portal user guide – creating a new referral application (PDF, 1.6 MB)
Fast-track application portal user guide – creating a new substantive application (PDF, 2 MB)
Video: Fast-track portal - Creating a substantive application
Interacting with applications in the portal
Central and local government agencies involved in Fast-track use the application portal to review and provide feedback on relevant applications.
The Fast-track team will give your agency’s nominated users access to the portal the first time you have an application to review, and they will notify you whenever there is a new application to review. This notification will include the project number, the application phase (activity) you are reviewing, and the relevant application details.
Video: Fast-track application portal – responding to requests
Adding and removing portal users
To request access to the Application Portal for a new user for your agency, or to remove a user, please get in touch with our Contact Centre team. They will work with our Fast-track operations team to arrange this for you.