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
								Catchwords
Environment Protection Authority v Forbes Shire Council [2014] NSWLEC 26	NSW	Forbes Shire Council	NSWLEC	Other	Commercial	—	26 Mar 2014	ENVIRONMENTAL OFFENCES - sentence - plea of guilty to charge of water pollution from livestock exchange facility - medium level of objective seriousness - mitigating factors considered ENVIRONMENTAL OFFENCES - sentence - plea of guilty to charge of failing to immediately notify water pollution incident - first time offence prosecuted - low objective seriousness - impact of recent doubling of maximum penalty considered
Warriewood Properties Pty Limited v Forbes Shire Council & Anor [2008] NSWLEC 222	NSW	Forbes Shire Council	NSWLEC	Granted	Commercial	Applicant	18 July 2008	Judicial Review :- party with benefit of consent admitted facts giving rise to invalidity of consent - declaration of invalidity made on admitted facts and documentary evidence
Forbes Shire Council v AG Australia Holdings Ltd (No 2) [2007] NSWSC 1091	NSW	Forbes Shire Council	NSWSC	—	—	—	4 Oct 2007	INSURANCE [2]- Policies of insurance- General matters- Policy provides for payment of expenses reasonably incurred by insured, provided expenses incurred with insurer's consent- Defendant insurer repudiates policy- Plaintiff insured settles claim and seeks costs of reports prepared for settlement- Defendant refuses to pay, claiming its consent was never obtained- Defendant liable to pay reasonable costs of settlement. PROCEDURE [574]- Costs- Departing from general rule- Order for costs on the in
Forbes Shire Council v AG Australia Holdings Ltd [2007] NSWSC 847	NSW	Forbes Shire Council	NSWSC	—	—	—	7 Aug 2007	INSURANCE [113]- Professional indemnity insurance- Plaintiff council negligently allows development of contaminated land- Predecessor council operated gas works on the site- Policy excludes liability where insured responsible for discharge of pollution- Held contamination of site had ceased to be connected to plaintiff's activities at time claim was made- Defendant insurer cannot rely on exclusion- Whether defendant's liability excused because plaintiff's original settlement of claims defective-
Forbes Shire Council v Pace [2002] NSWSC 966	NSW	Forbes Shire Council	NSWSC	Dismissed	—	Applicant	19 Nov 2002	WATER & WATERCOURSES - discharge of effluent from sewerage treatment works into swamp - inundation of adjoining land - immunity of Council - extent of - WORDS & PHRASES - "good faith".