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 (5,348 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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Briscoe-Hough v Minister for Local Government (No 5) [2025] NSWLEC 94NSWEdward River CouncilNSWLECDismissedCouncil28 Aug 2025COSTS — Public interest litigation — Self-represented litigant — Public law construction — Costs follow the event
Briscoe-Hough v Minister for Local Government (No 4) [2025] NSWLEC 87NSWEdward River CouncilNSWLECDismissedCouncil15 Aug 2025NOTICE OF MOTION — Seeking to set aside orders made in principal
Briscoe-Hough v Minister for Local Government (No 3) [2025] NSWLEC 78NSWEdward River CouncilNSWLEC28 July 2025JUDICIAL REVIEW — Challenge to Notice of Intention to issue a Performance Improvement Order under s 438 of the Local Government Act 1993 — Seeking an order to declare the Notice and subsequent Order invalid — Requirement to attach evidence to Notice of Intention — Summons dismissed
Briscoe-Hough v Minister for Local Government (No 2) [2025] NSWLEC 66NSWEdward River CouncilNSWLEC26 June 2025PROCEDURE – application to set aside

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