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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| Cessnock City Council v Laila Investments Pty Ltd [2012] NSWLEC 206 | NSW | Cessnock City Council | NSWLEC | Upheld | Multi dwelling | Council | 21 Aug 2012 | CIVIL ENFORCEMENT - declaration of invalidity of occupation certificate made - failure of private certifier to comply with mandatory provision in Environmental Planning and Assessment Act 1979 |
| Cessnock City Council -v- Aviation and Leisure Corporation Pty Ltd [2012] NSWSC 221 | NSW | Cessnock City Council | NSWSC | — | — | — | 14 Mar 2012 | CONTRACT - alternative dispute resolution clause - construction - PRACTICE AND PROCEDURE - application for permanent stay of proceedings on basis they have been instituted in breach of binding alternative dispute resolution provision - stay ordered |
| SOCARES Support Group Inc v Cessnock City Council [2012] NSWLEC 23 | NSW | Cessnock City Council | NSWLEC | Dismissed | Service station | Council | 21 Feb 2012 | JUDICIAL REVIEW - whether council decision not to tender for pound services in breach of tender obligations in Local Government Act 1993 - whether council could be satisfied of exceptions to requirement to tender contract for services - whether council satisfied of extenuating circumstances or unavailability of competitive or reliable tenders - whether mandatory relevant considerations not taken into account by council - whether irrelevant considerations taken into account by the council - groun |
| Cessnock City Council v Bimbadgen Estate Pty Ltd (No 2) [2011] NSWLEC 140 | NSW | Cessnock City Council | NSWLEC | Upheld | Other | Council | 16 Aug 2011 | ENVIRONMENTAL OFFENCES: sentence - carrying out development without consent - whether works continued after stop work order - consideration of objective and subjective factors - extent of harm - whether the offence was committed intentionally - whether the offence was committed for financial gain |
| Cessnock City Council v Bimbadgen Estate Pty Ltd [2011] NSWLEC 136 | NSW | Cessnock City Council | NSWLEC | Dismissed | Other | Council | 9 Aug 2011 | PROCEDURE: application to adduce evidence by video link - documentary cross-examination - credit of witness in issue - evidence of witness central to proceedings - inconvenience to witness and cost to defendant not as great as suggested - application refused |
| Hardie Holdings Pty Ltd v Cessnock City Council [2010] NSWLEC 11 | NSW | Cessnock City Council | NSWLEC | Dismissed | Tourism | Council | 2 Feb 2010 | PRACTICE AND PROCEDURE :- joinder of party - statutory authority seeking joinder to Class 1 proceedings - power to order joinder under s 39A - discretion - joinder refused - whether s 64(1) confers rights of appearance on Crown as intervenor or of some lesser status - issue not determined - costs - no order as to costs |
| ACM Landmark Pty Limited v Cessnock City Council [2006] NSWLEC 256 | NSW | Cessnock City Council | NSWLEC | Granted | Other | Applicant | 26 Apr 2006 | Costs :- applicant successful in class 1 appeal against council's refusal of s 96 modification application for the intensification of use of a crematorium - whether fair and reasonable to make costs order in favour of applicant - all expert evidence was in support of the modification application - resident's concerns relating to air quality, health, planning and traffic impacts had no rational evidentiary basis - council acted unreasonably having regard to evidence in maintaining opposition to a |
| ACM Landmark Pty Limited v Cessnock City Council [2006] NSWLEC 39 | NSW | Cessnock City Council | NSWLEC | Interlocutory | — | Applicant | 3 Feb 2006 | Practice and Procedure :- operation of slip rule |
| Porters v Cessnock City Council [2005] NSWSC 1275 | NSW | Cessnock City Council | NSWSC | Granted | Single dwelling | Applicant | 6 Dec 2005 | PROCEDURE – Supreme Court procedure – proceedings where deceased person’s estate has an interest, but is not represented – circumstances when appropriate to proceed in absence of any legal personal representative – EQUITY – equitable charges and liens – purchaser’s lien for amounts paid towards purchase price of land – when available – EQUITY – general principles and maxims of equity – equity regards as done that which ought to be done – terms contract for sale of land not completed in vendor’s |
| Hunter Development Brokerage Pty Ltd v Cessnock City Council; Tovedale Pty Ltd v Shoalhaven City Council [2005] NSWCA 169 | NSW | Cessnock City Council | NSWCA | Granted | Subdivision | Applicant | 23 May 2005 | LAND AND ENVIRONMENT- Devlopment consents for subdivision of land - Whether consents had lapsed - Under Environmental Planning and Assessment Act, consent lapsed unless "building, engineering or construction work relating to" development was "physically commenced" upon land to which consent applied - Whether expression "building, engineering or construction work" was capable of including survey work and/or geotechnical investigation work - Whether survey work and/or geotechnical investigation wo |
| Cessnock City Council v Courtney (No. 6) [2004] NSWLEC 622 | NSW | Cessnock City Council | NSWLEC | — | — | — | 12 Nov 2004 | Prosecution :- whether the defendant carried out development without the requisite consent under s 76A(1)(a) of the Environmental Planning and Assessment Act 1979 thereby committing an offence against s 125(1) of such Act. |
| Cessnock City Council v Courtney (No. 5) [2004] NSWLEC 497 | NSW | Cessnock City Council | NSWLEC | Other | Single dwelling | Council | 31 Aug 2004 | Prosecution :- Further application for a Prasad direction refused |
| Biwazu Pty Limited v Cessnock City Council [2004] NSWLEC 411 | NSW | Cessnock City Council | NSWLEC | Dismissed | Subdivision | Council | 27 Aug 2004 | Injunctions and Declarations :- lapse of consent - no physical commencement of work as required by s 95(4) Environmental Planning and Assessment Act 1979 |
| Cessnock City Council v Courtney (No. 4) [2004] NSWLEC 489 | NSW | Cessnock City Council | NSWLEC | Dismissed | Single dwelling | Council | 24 Aug 2004 | Prosecution :- applications for a no case to answer direction or a Prasad direction refused |
| Cessnock City Council v Courtney (No. 3) [2004] NSWLEC 488 | NSW | Cessnock City Council | NSWLEC | Interlocutory | — | Council | 20 Aug 2004 | Prosecution :- admissibility of records prepared by the defendant or prepared on the defendant's instructions |
| Cessnock City Council v Courtney (No. 2) [2004] NSWLEC 487 | NSW | Cessnock City Council | NSWLEC | Interlocutory | Single dwelling | Council | 19 Aug 2004 | Prosecution :- statement admitted for limited purpose of corroboration not for an unfavourable inference |
| Cessnock City Council v Courtney [2004] NSWLEC 486 | NSW | Cessnock City Council | NSWLEC | Interlocutory | — | — | 17 Aug 2004 | Prosecution :- prior inconsistent statement - cross examination allowed confined to limited factual issue |