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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6,272 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 (5,347 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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Gunnedah Shire Council v Woodhead [2020] NSWLEC 131NSWGunnedah Shire CouncilNSWLEC7 Sept 2020CIVIL ENFORCEMENT - failure to comply with clean-up orders made pursuant to s 124 of the Local Government Act 1993 - premises in an unhealthy and unsafe condition - owner of premises ordered to clean them up within 60 days - substitute performance order appropriate if premises not cleaned up as ordered COSTS - Council seeks gross sum costs order - appropriate that gross sum costs order be made - property owner ordered to pay Council’s costs in the gross sum of $8,500 within 28 days
Burgess v Gunnedah Shire Council [2010] NSWLEC 97NSWGunnedah Shire CouncilNSWLECGrantedOtherApplicant11 June 2010INJUNCTIONS AND DECLARATIONS :- modification application of development consent granted - modifications consented to were not of "minimal environmental impact" - consent orders made
Mathews v Council of the Shire of Gunnedah [2010] NSWSC 412NSWGunnedah Shire CouncilNSWSCDismissedOtherCouncil5 May 2010REAL PROPERTY - Caveats - Application for extension - whether interest caveatable. - STAMP DUTY - Admissability of unstamped documents.

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