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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6,348 decisions on record across 372 councils. Showing the most recent 6,000. Outcome, development type and who won are read from each judgment by an LLM (5,355 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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David Supple by his tutor Rachel Supple v Bellingen Shire Council [2016] NSWSC 1882NSWBellingen Shire CouncilNSWSC———16 Dec 2016TORT – negligence - Council – maintenance of roadways – where cyclist suffered severe head and brain injuries after hitting “shove” in road – highway cases notoriously difficult – confidential advice - best interests of plaintiff - settlement approved by Court
Bellingen Shire Council v Colavon Pty Limited [2012] NSWCA 34NSWBellingen Shire CouncilNSWCA———9 Mar 2012TORTS - negligence - duty of care - roads - failure to install guide posts - public or other authorities - special statutory power under Civil Liability Act 2002, s 43A TORTS - negligence - duty of care - roads - failure to install guide posts - identification of relevant risk - Civil Liability Act 2002, s 5B TORTS - negligence - duty of care - roads - failure to install guide posts - public or other authorities - whether Council exercising special statutory power under Roads Act 1993, s 87 CIVI
Bellingen Shire Council v Lamir-Pike (No 2) [2010] NSWLEC 197NSWBellingen Shire CouncilNSWLECInterlocutoryOtherCouncil5 Oct 2010INJUNCTIONS AND DECLARATIONS :- interlocutory injunction to restrain dance party without development consent.
Bellingen Shire Council v Lamir-Pike [2010] NSWLEC 195NSWBellingen Shire CouncilNSWLECInterlocutoryOtherCouncil1 Oct 2010INJUNCTIONS AND DECLARATIONS :- councils' application for interlocutory injunction to restrain dance party for which development consent required but not obtained.
Colavon Pty Limited trading as Thormans Transport v Bellingen Shire Council [2008] NSWCA 355NSWBellingen Shire CouncilNSWCA———19 Dec 2008NEGLIGENCE – roads – liability of roads authority – failure to carry out road work – immunity under s 45 Civil Liability Act 2002 – material facts which must be pleaded – whether installation of guideposts at side of road constitutes “road work” within meaning of section 45 - PROCEDURE – Courts and judges generally – whether reasons of trial judge inadequate – where resolution of case did not depend entirely on credibility - NEW TRIAL – Particular grounds – where trial judge has not dealt adequa
Environment Protection Authority v Bellingen Shire Council [2003] NSWLEC 42NSWBellingen Shire CouncilNSWLECUpheldOtherApplicant17 Dec 2002Prosecution :- breach of licence condition - penalty

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