Takapuna is two jobs in one suburb. There are established residential streets and premium renovated homes on one side, and apartments, offices, hospitality and retail on the other, often within a block of each other. The electrical work follows that split: careful, finished residential work where the detail is the point, and commercial work where the constraint is trading hours and shared services.
Apartments and tenancies add their own rules. What can be done inside a unit or a tenancy is usually straightforward, but anything touching common property, a landlord's services or a shared distribution board needs the right permission before a tool comes out. Sorting that out first is not bureaucracy, it is what stops a job stopping halfway. For larger home projects the same logic applies earlier: plan the electrical layout and the feature lighting before installation begins, not during.