Update to Schedule 5 - Environmental Heritage 2025

Stage history

1. Lodged

   source label: “pre-exhibition/Gateway Implementation”

   Status date 4 Feb 2026 · Observed 12 June 2026 → current

More in Willoughby City Council

• Willoughby Local Environmental Plan 2012 Post-exhibition· 29 May 2026
• Comprehensive LEP Amendment 2020 (to align with LSPS & Chatswood CBD Strategy) Withdrawn· 20 Oct 2021

Planning disputes in Willoughby City Council

Tribunal and court decisions naming this council, newest first. A signal of contested development in the area, not legal advice.

• Willoughby City Council v Rahmani [2017] NSWLEC 166 NSWLEC· 6 Dec 2017· Willoughby City Council v Rahmani [2017] NSWLEC 166 SENTENCE - prosecution for removal of trees contrary to requirement of development consent - early plea of guilty - trees were three mature specimens with long Safe Useful Life Expectancies - trees were part of a critically endangered ecological community - removal negligent but not reckless - consideration of Defendant’s subjective circumstances including agreement to order requiring planting of two replacement trees - appropriate starting penalty $90,000 - consideration of Defendant’s capacity
• Willoughby City Council v Screnci [2015] NSWLEC 192 NSWLEC· 10 Dec 2015· Willoughby City Council v Screnci [2015] NSWLEC 192 CRIMINAL LAW – plea of guilty entered – sentence hearing held – application to withdraw guilty plea and enter plea in bar – offences against s 125(1) of the Environmental Planning and Assessment Act – defendant caused development to be carried out without consent – prosecution must establish proceedings were commenced within limitation period – s 127(5) of the Environmental Planning and Assessment Act – evidence does not establish the proceedings were commenced in time – statutory bar upon comme
• Cavric v Willoughby City Council [2015] NSWCA 182 NSWCA· 3 July 2015· Cavric v Willoughby City Council [2015] NSWCA 182 HIGHWAYS – car park used to pass from one street to another – whether car park a “public road” – whether owner council a “roads authority” – legislative history in relation to opening public roads in NSW area not a road under the common law – whether user sufficient basis to establish existence of public road under statute – whether the Roads Act 1993 (NSW), s 249 a separate test of what is a public road or evidentiary provision only – effect of the Conveyancing Act 1919 (NSW), 178 – Stojan (No
• Willoughby City Council v Wu [2014] NSWLEC 165 NSWLEC· 20 Oct 2014· Willoughby City Council v Wu [2014] NSWLEC 165 CIVIL ENFORCEMENT - failure to comply with a statutory brothel closure order issued by a council - carrying out unauthorised development at the subject premises - whether declarations should be made in addition to injunctions - principles relating to declaratory relief.
• Willoughby City Council v Chen [2014] NSWLEC 92 NSWLEC· 3 July 2014· Willoughby City Council v Chen [2014] NSWLEC 92 CIVIL ENFORCEMENT: Brothel and sex uses at premises without consent - use and advertising prohibited - Council's closure order disobeyed - use alleged to have ceased.
• Willoughby Council v Vlahos [2013] NSWLEC 71 NSWLEC· 16 May 2013· Willoughby Council v Vlahos [2013] NSWLEC 71 PROSECUTION - breach of s 125 of the Environmental Planning and Assessment Act 1979 - plea of guilty - removal of a tree required to be retained by conditions of a development consent - environmental harm - refusal of order under s 10 of the Crimes (Sentencing Procedure) Act 1999