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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6,356 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 (5,358 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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Inglis v Buckley (No 2) [2023] NSWLEC 113NSWSnowy Valleys CouncilNSWLECCostsSubdivisionApplicant25 Oct 2023COSTS — party/party — successful applicant should receive all costs – respondent who filed submitting appearance not liable for costs – respondent council liable for applicant’s costs
Inglis v Buckley [2023] NSWLEC 77NSWSnowy Valleys CouncilNSWLECDismissedSubdivisionApplicant20 July 2023JUDICIAL REVIEW – challenge to grant of development consent for subdivision in rural area which created undersized lot with a dwelling entitlement transferred as part of boundary adjustment – council failed to form requisite state of satisfaction that potential for land use conflict will not be increased as a result of the subdivision – whether council resolution to approve subdivision and delegate imposition of standard conditions to CEO offended rule against indivisibility of function
Snowy Valleys Council v Evans & Anor (No. 2) [2021] NSWSC 711NSWSnowy Valleys CouncilNSWSC———17 June 2021COSTS – assessment of costs – specified gross sum costs order – Civil Procedure Act 2005, s 98(4)(c) – the plaintiff, a local council, brings proceedings against an owner of land within the council district – plaintiff council successful against the first defendant land owner – findings made in the first
Snowy Valleys Council v Anthony William Evans & Anor [2021] NSWSC 428NSWSnowy Valleys CouncilNSWSC———30 Apr 2021MORTGAGES AND SECURITIES – Personal Property Securities Act 2009 (Cth) – Personal Property Securities Register – the plaintiff, a local council, seeks to remove the registration of certain security interests claimed by the first defendant from the Personal Properties Securities Register (“the PPS Register”) – whether collateral described in the registrations by the first defendant secures any obligation owed by any debtor to a secured party – the first defendant seeks unilaterally to present cer

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