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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6,281 decisions on record across 371 councils. Showing the most recent 6,000. Outcome, development type and who won are read from each judgment by an LLM (5,349 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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Walcha Council v Minister for Local Government [2016] NSWLEC 60NSWWalcha CouncilNSWLECUpheldOtherCouncil24 May 2016PRACTICE AND PROCEDURE – notices for production of documents – public interest immunity – whether documents subject to – documents submitted to Cabinet – whether documents of a lower order of public interest – whether public interest immunity impairs implied freedom of political communication
Walcha Council and Ors v Minister for Local Government and Ors [2016] NSWLEC 57NSWWalcha CouncilNSWLECOtherMixed18 May 2016JOINDER – challenge to validity of Local Government (Council Amalgamations) Proclamation 2016 – application for joinder commenced by a council amalgamated by the Proclamation – timing of determination of preliminary question of whether joinder should be granted – addition of two further applicants for joinder – consent to adding additional applicants for joinder – consequential protection of right to determination of public interest issues pressed on behalf of the Gundagai community – presumptio

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