Planning disputes

Every planning and environment court and tribunal decision we track, matched to a council, in one table. Filter by state, posture or who won, search any party, court or keyword, sort any column, and click through to the council or the full public judgment.

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6,269 decisions on record across 370 councils. Showing the most recent 6,000. Outcome, development type and who won are read from each judgment by an LLM (5,346 analysed so far). Use the enriched view or the won-by filter to see only those; the rest are marked pending and fill in as analysis runs.

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National planning disputes
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Armidale Regional Council v Cox [2025] NSWLEC 45NSWArmidale Regional CouncilNSWLEC9 May 2025CIVIL ENFORCEMENT — Orders to remove waste under Local Government Act 1993 (NSW) not complied with — Waste removal order — Service of summons effected
Armidale Regional Council v O'Connor [2020] NSWLEC 77NSWArmidale Regional CouncilNSWLEC23 June 2020CIVIL ENFORCEMENT – proceedings to remedy or restrain a threatened breach of the Local Government Act 1993 – Council meeting called to consider motion to terminate general manager’s contract – whether power to terminate general manager’s contract is an implied power under s 334 of the Local Government Act 1993 or an entitlement under the terms of the contract – whether exercise of implied statutory power conditioned by procedural fairness requirements – whether Councillors failed to accord proce
Armidale Regional Council v O’Connor (No 2) [2020] NSWLEC 54NSWArmidale Regional CouncilNSWLEC12 May 2020CIVIL PROCEDURE — Injunction — Urgent injunction sought to restrain councillors from voting on Council motion — Removal of Chief Executive Officer —Extension of interlocutory relief
Armidale Regional Council v O’Connor (No 3) [2020] NSWLEC 56NSWArmidale Regional CouncilNSWLEC12 May 2020CIVIL PROCEDURE — Injunction — Urgent injunction sought to restrain councillors from voting on Council motion — Removal of Chief Executive Officer — Reasons for grant and extension of injunctive relief
Armidale Regional Council v O’Connor [2020] NSWLEC 53NSWArmidale Regional CouncilNSWLEC11 May 2020CIVIL PROCEDURE — Injunction — Urgent injunction sought to restrain councillors from voting on Council motion — Removal of Chief Executive Officer — Balance of convenience where Council meeting is imminent — Injunctive relief granted
Armidale Regional Council v Vorhauer (No 2) [2020] NSWSC 56NSWArmidale Regional CouncilNSWSC11 Feb 2020LAND LAW – possession of land – unpaid rates and charges – local council’s right of sale – contract of sale with vacant possession – failure of occupiers to vacate land in response to statutory notice – proceedings commenced by Council – defences previously struck out – no appearance by defendants – right of council to possession – where sale price exceeded outstanding rates and charges – whether legal costs of the proceedings amounted to expenses in connection with the sale – s 718 Local Govern
Armidale Regional Council v Vorhauer [2019] NSWSC 1153NSWArmidale Regional CouncilNSWSC6 Sept 2019CIVIL PROCEDURE – Pleadings – Striking out – No reasonable cause of action or defence – Tendency to cause prejudice, embarrassment or delay – Abuse of process
University of New England v Attorney General of New South Wales & Ors [2009] NSWSC 1020NSWArmidale Regional CouncilNSWSC24 June 2009EQUITY - trusts and trustees - trustees - their appointment - assessment of fitness of new trustee - trust relating to the operation of a regional art gallery.

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