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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National planning disputes
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Council of the City of Broken Hill v Redenbach Group Pty Ltd (No 2) [2026] NSWSC 367	NSW	Broken Hill City Council	NSWSC	—	—	—	16 Apr 2026	CIVIL PROCEDURE – Orders – Final orders – Form of orders appropriate to give effect to
Council of the City of Broken Hill v Redenbach Group Pty Ltd trading as Redenbach Legal [2026] NSWSC 262	NSW	Broken Hill City Council	NSWSC	Other	—	—	25 Mar 2026	CONTRACT — Formation — Intention to contract — Where Council invited legal practice to tender to be appointed to panel — Whether after accepting tender proposals Council entered into separate costs agreements — Whether any “uplift” or “deferred” fee agreement reached orally or by conduct by Council employees FIDUCIARY DUTIES — Breach of fiduciary duties — Where legal practice received money on trust for Council – Whether legal practice entitled to distribute money where no authorisation from Cou
In the matter of Boss Constructions (NSW) Pty Ltd (No 2) [2019] NSWSC 554	NSW	Broken Hill City Council	NSWSC	—	—	—	14 May 2019	COSTS — Gross sum costs order — Successful defendant — Risk that plaintiffs unable to meet costs order — Modest costs in issue — Jurisdictional issue ought to have been taken by defendant — Discount warranted — Gross sum costs of 40% of solicitor party costs ordered.
In the matter of Boss Constructions (NSW) Pty Ltd [2019] NSWSC 543	NSW	Broken Hill City Council	NSWSC	—	—	—	2 May 2019	CORPORATIONS — Winding up — Statutory demand — Application to set aside — Whether application validly served — Application sent by email to defendant’s solicitor on last day — Email address not provided on statutory demand as a means of service — Email did not come to the attention of solicitor until outside 21 day period — Service invalid — No jurisdiction — Application dismissed.
Broken Hill City Council v Unique Urban Built Pty Ltd [2018] NSWSC 825	NSW	Broken Hill City Council	NSWSC	Other	Other	Applicant	5 June 2018	COMMERCIAL ARBITRATION – Commercial Arbitration Act 2010 (NSW) – application for an order that the plaintiff and first defendant be referred to arbitration – arbitration agreement – whether there is an operative agreement between the parties to submit to arbitration – the meaning of inoperative – where the person prescribed in the contract to nominate an arbitrator does not exist – whether non-existence of person prescribed to nominate an arbitrator renders the agreement inoperative; HELD – the
Broken Hill City Council v Tumanic [2012] NSWLEC 162	NSW	Broken Hill City Council	NSWLEC	—	—	—	16 July 2012	COSTS: ex parte application for leave to discontinue and an order for costs - use of premises contrary to conditions of consent - supervening event of owner re-entering the premises and taking possession - leave to discontinue granted - costs sought in fixed amount - disentitling conduct of respondents - order for the payment of fixed costs not logical, fair or reasonable based on available information - costs payable as agreed or assessed.
CPT Manager Limited (acting as trustee of the Broken Hill Trust) v Broken Hill City Council [2010] NSWLEC 69	NSW	Broken Hill City Council	NSWLEC	Dismissed	Retail	Council	10 June 2010	JUDICIAL REVIEW :- apprehended bias - pre
WILKINS v COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF BROKEN HILL [2005] NSWCA 468	NSW	Broken Hill City Council	NSWCA	—	—	—	20 Dec 2005	NEGLIGENCE – public swimming pool – diving accident – quadriplegia – warning signs – appeal on causation finding – whether breach materially contributed to injury – where breach was a pattern of non-enforcement of prohibition on diving – where plaintiff did not appreciate risk – whether plaintiff would have heeded prohibition had there been stricter enforcement – use of evidence of disobedient conduct – attitude towards authority - permissibility of inferring causation from breach – persuasive o
Paul Jonathon Keith WILKINS v COUNCIL Of The City of BROKEN HILL [2004] NSWSC 503	NSW	Broken Hill City Council	NSWSC	—	—	—	22 June 2004