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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McGrath v South Gippsland SC [2026] VCAT 13VICSouth GippslandVCATGrantedSubdivisionApplicant5 Jan 2026
Attenborough v South Gippsland SC [2025] VCAT 776VICSouth GippslandVCATGrantedSubdivisionApplicant1 Sept 2025
Schuhmann v South Gippsland SC [2025] VCAT 676VICSouth GippslandVCATRefusedSubdivisionCouncil30 July 2025
Vitetta v South Gippsland SC [2025] VCAT 583VICSouth GippslandVCATGrantedMulti dwellingApplicant2 July 2025
Houben v South Gippsland SC [2024] VCAT 1219VICSouth GippslandVCATRefusedSingle dwellingCouncil20 Dec 2024
Prom Country Developments Pty Ltd v South Gippsland SC [2024] VCAT 1015VICSouth GippslandVCATRefusedSubdivisionCouncil23 Oct 2024
Giardino v South Gippsland SC [2024] VCAT 818VICSouth GippslandVCATDismissedSingle dwellingCouncil28 Aug 2024
Boutros v South Gippsland SC [2024] VCAT 395VICSouth GippslandVCATInterlocutoryCommercialMixed3 May 2024
Thompson v South Gippsland SC [2024] VCAT 225VICSouth GippslandVCATInterlocutoryMixed use—13 Mar 2024
Hillview Rise Pty Ltd v South Gippsland SC [2024] VCAT 188VICSouth GippslandVCATRemittedOtherMixed29 Feb 2024
Jones v South Gippsland SC [2024] VCAT 156VICSouth GippslandVCATUpheldOtherCouncil22 Feb 2024
Wallis v South Gippsland SC [2023] VCAT 1180VICSouth GippslandVCATGrantedSubdivisionApplicant24 Oct 2023
Suddards v South Gippsland SC [2023] VCAT 891VICSouth GippslandVCATGrantedSubdivisionApplicant7 Aug 2023
Vickers v South Gippsland SC [2023] VCAT 813VICSouth GippslandVCATRefusedAgriculturalApplicant20 July 2023
Mclaren Super Pty Ltd v South Gippsland SC [2023] VCAT 309VICSouth GippslandVCATVariedWarehouseApplicant24 Mar 2023
JIIR Pty Ltd v South Gippsland SC [2023] VCAT 165VICSouth GippslandVCAT———21 Feb 2023
Scott v South Gippsland SC [2022] VCAT 849VICSouth GippslandVCATGrantedSingle dwellingApplicant4 Aug 2022Corrected
Roussac-Hoyne v South Gippsland SC [2022] VCAT 577VICSouth GippslandVCATRefusedSubdivisionCouncil30 May 2022
Boutros v South Gippsland SC [2022] VCAT 399VICSouth GippslandVCAT———12 Apr 2022
Scott v South Gippsland SC [2022] VCAT 341VICSouth GippslandVCATDismissedSingle dwellingCouncil30 Mar 2022No 2
Scott v South Gippsland SC [2022] VCAT 105VICSouth GippslandVCATInterlocutorySingle dwelling—28 Jan 2022
Thompson v South Gippsland SC [2021] VCAT 1473VICSouth GippslandVCATRefusedMixed useCouncil13 Dec 2021
Thomas v South Gippsland SC [2021] VCAT 729VICSouth GippslandVCATGrantedSingle dwellingApplicant12 July 2021
Rowland v South Gippsland SC [2021] VCAT 504VICSouth GippslandVCATRemittedSingle dwellingMixed20 May 2021

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