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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6,284 decisions on record across 371 councils. Showing the most recent 6,000. Outcome, development type and who won are read from each judgment by an LLM (5,349 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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Spencer v Balranald Shire Council [2002] NSWCA 102NSWBalranald Shire CouncilNSWCA———16 Apr 2002Appeals- When Court should interfere with apportionment made by Judge sitting alone. Torts- Negligence- Motor vehicle- Unexpected dust cloud- Agony of the moment- However circumstances justify finding of negligence. (D)

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