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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Greater Hume Shire Council v Pertzel [2026] NSWLEC 54NSWGreater Hume Shire CouncilNSWLECGrantedOtherCouncil8 May 2026CIVIL ENFORCEMENT — failure to comply with order given under the Local Government Act 1993 (NSW) to remove items on property — prohibited use of land — whether declarations should be made in the public interest in addition to enforcement orders — declarations and enforcement orders made
Weber v Greater Hume Shire Council (No 2) [2019] NSWCA 108NSWGreater Hume Shire CouncilNSWCA———14 May 2019CIVIL PROCEDURE – appeal – judgments and orders – representative action – orders of trial judge a to plaintiff’s personal claim set aside – further order setting aside answers to common questions sought – whether judge made orders
Weber v Greater Hume Shire Council [2019] NSWCA 74NSWGreater Hume Shire CouncilNSWCAGrantedOtherApplicant17 Apr 2019TORTS — negligence — duty of care — duty of care owed by operator of waste disposal tip — escape of fire – whether class to whom duty owed indeterminate TORTS — negligence — standard of care — whether Council exercising special statutory power under Civil Liability Act 2002 (NSW), s 43A TORTS — negligence — breach of duty — whether adequate precautions taken to prevent escape of fire – allocation of resources by local council — application of Civil Liability Act, s 42 — whether inaction of local
Weber v Greater Hume Shire Council (No 2) [2018] NSWSC 1338NSWGreater Hume Shire CouncilNSWSCDismissedOtherCouncil30 Aug 2018REPRESENTATIVE PROCEEDINGS – common questions concerning claim for negligence – answers to common questions – costs
Weber v Greater Hume Shire Council [2018] NSWSC 667NSWGreater Hume Shire CouncilNSWSC———14 May 2018TORTS – representative proceedings – negligence – plaintiff suffered injury through fire – determination of liability – no claim for pure economic loss – ignition of fire – origins – causation – spread or escape of fire – common law principles – existence and scope of duty of care – novelty of duty –salient features relevant to duty of care – reasonably foreseeability – knowledge of defendant significance of harm – relationship – vulnerability indeterminacy – breach – statutory conditions regard
Greater Hume Shire Council v J & L Cauchi Civil Contracting Pty Ltd [2006] NSWLEC 738NSWGreater Hume Shire CouncilNSWLEC———3 Oct 2006Contempt :- whether a finding of contempt for breach of a court order requires proof that the breach is deliberate.

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