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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Davis v Dodevski [2021] NSWLEC 93NSWNambucca Valley CouncilNSWLECUpheldSingle dwellingApplicant27 Aug 2021ADMINISTRATIVE LAW – judicial review – failure of council to comply with precondition in local environmental plan in granting development consent for a dwelling on rural zoned land less than 100 ha in area an error of law – no entitlement to build a dwelling on under sized lot in rural landscape zone –development consent invalid
Community Housing Limited v Clarence Valley Council [2015] NSWCA 327NSWNambucca Valley CouncilNSWCA19 Oct 2015COURTS – jurisdiction – supervisory jurisdiction of superior courts – whether supervisory jurisdiction impliedly excluded by specific right of appeal - Local Government Act 1993 (NSW), ss 574, 674 – Land and Environment Court Act 1979 (NSW), s 20 CHARITABLE TRUST – whether providing housing for low income persons charitable – whether providing training, vocational and skills development charitable LOCAL GOVERNMENT – rating – exemptions – whether landowner was a public charity – whether landowner
Community Housing Limited v Clarence Valley Council [2014] NSWLEC 193NSWNambucca Valley CouncilNSWLEC23 Dec 2014RATING - exemption - whether company is a public benevolent institution or public charity - whether land owned by the company exempt from the payment of rates in accordance with Local Government Act s 556(1) (h).
Nambucca Valley Conservation Association v Nambucca Shire Council [2010] NSWLEC 38NSWNambucca Valley CouncilNSWLECDismissedSubdivisionCouncil18 Mar 2010JUDICIAL REVIEW :- validity of development consent for rural-residential subdivision – whether council refused consent or, if so, whether council officer had authority to refuse – whether species impact statement required – jurisdictional fact whether development likely to significantly affect threatened species, populations or ecological communities – whether environmental management plan or draft condition requiring same had to be

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