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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6,347 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 (5,356 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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Gunawardana v Melbourne CC [2026] VCAT 796VICMelbourneVCATRefusedDual occupancyCouncil5 Oct 2026
Sullivan Land Investments Pty Ltd v Melbourne CC [2026] VCAT 319VICMelbourneVCATGrantedApartmentsApplicant6 May 2026
Nuvolink Pty Ltd v Melbourne CC [2026] VCAT 113VICMelbourneVCATGrantedCommercialApplicant25 Feb 2026
Panorama Investment Corporation Pty Ltd v Melbourne CC [2026] VCAT 36VICMelbourneVCATGrantedMulti dwellingApplicant27 Jan 2026
Sender v Melbourne CC [2026] VCAT 26VICMelbourneVCATInterlocutoryOtherMixed14 Jan 2026
Rocclea Projects Pty Ltd ATF 179-183 Hotham Street Unit Trust v Melbourne CC [2025] VCAT 1042VICMelbourneVCATRefusedApartmentsCouncil3 Dec 2025
Pinnacle People Pty Ltd v Melbourne CC [2025] VCAT 1025VICMelbourneVCATRefusedSignageCouncil19 Nov 2025
Taylor-Sands v Melbourne CC [2025] VCAT 919VICMelbourneVCATGrantedSingle dwellingApplicant16 Oct 2025
Adspace Outdoor Pty Ltd v Melbourne CC [2025] VCAT 879VICMelbourneVCATGrantedSignageApplicant9 Oct 2025
Seafirst Australia Pty Ltd v Melbourne CC [2025] VCAT 852VICMelbourneVCATDismissedCommercialApplicant29 Sept 2025
Schwartz Family Co Pty Ltd v Melbourne CC [2025] VCAT 825VICMelbourneVCATGrantedCommercialApplicant19 Sept 2025
East Melbourne Group Inc v Melbourne CC [2025] VCAT 698VICMelbourneVCATGrantedPlace of worshipApplicant6 Aug 2025
Pepe Corporation Pty Ltd v Melbourne CC [2025] VCAT 511VICMelbourneVCATRefusedEducationApplicant10 June 2025
Alcahosa Pty Ltd v Melbourne CC [2025] VCAT 396VICMelbourneVCATGrantedOtherApplicant6 May 2025
51 Hardiman Pty Ltd v Melbourne CC & Ors [2025] VCAT 222VICMelbourneVCATRefusedApartmentsCouncil28 Mar 2025
Billboards Australia Pty Ltd v Melbourne CC [2024] VCAT 1187VICMelbourneVCATRefusedSignageCouncil31 Dec 2024
Wotherspoon v Melbourne CC [2024] VCAT 768VICMelbourneVCATDismissedSingle dwellingCouncil12 Aug 2024
Seafirst Australia Pty Ltd v Melbourne CC [2024] VCAT 681VICMelbourneVCATDismissedMulti dwellingCouncil18 July 2024
Mayne v Melbourne CC [2024] VCAT 608VICMelbourneVCATGrantedSingle dwellingApplicant8 July 2024
Leftbank Right Pty Ltd v Melbourne CC [2024] VCAT 555VICMelbourneVCAT———13 June 2024
Laneway Developments Pty Ltd v Melbourne CC [2024] VCAT 501VICMelbourneVCATRefusedMixed useCouncil12 June 2024
Dowling v Melbourne CC [2024] VCAT 384VICMelbourneVCATGrantedSingle dwellingApplicant3 May 2024
Port Melbourne Storage Pty Ltd v Melbourne CC [2024] VCAT 332VICMelbourneVCATGrantedWarehouseApplicant17 Apr 2024
The Graduate Union of the University of Melbourne Inc. v Melbourne CC [2024] VCAT 324VICMelbourneVCATGrantedApartmentsApplicant11 Apr 2024
Tiller v Melbourne CC [2024] VCAT 318VICMelbourneVCATDismissedSingle dwellingCouncil9 Apr 2024
Victton Pty Ltd v Melbourne CC [2024] VCAT 292VICMelbourneVCATDismissedMixed useCouncil2 Apr 2024
Breadon v Melbourne CC [2024] VCAT 70VICMelbourneVCATVariedSingle dwellingMixed31 Jan 2024
Richards v Melbourne CC [2023] VCAT 1438VICMelbourneVCATGrantedEducationApplicant22 Dec 2023
Lipe v Melbourne CC [2023] VCAT 1345VICMelbourneVCATRefusedMulti dwellingApplicant5 Dec 2023
Redmond & Others v Melbourne CC [2023] VCAT 1290VICMelbourneVCATGrantedMulti dwellingApplicant24 Nov 2023Corrected
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