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.

State

Posture

Analysis

Won by

Outcome

Filtered to

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.

Court and tribunal judgments are checked daily. See coverage and live source health.

Showing 1–8 of 8

National planning disputes
								Catchwords
Peregrine Mineral Sands Pty Ltd v Wentworth Shire Council [2015] NSWLEC 41	NSW	Wentworth Shire Council	NSWLEC	Costs	Extractive	Council	25 Mar 2015	COSTS: - Class 3 proceedings - appeal against levying of a rate on the ground that the land is not rateable or not rateable to a particular ordinary or special rate - s 574 of the Local Government Act 1993 - proceedings discontinued - whether it is fair and reasonable for Court to make an order for the payment of costs - r 3.7 Land and Environment Court Rules 2007 (NSW) - whether applicants’ claim had reasonable prospects of success - attempts by applicants to limit costs not relevant to order f
Peregrine Mineral Sands Pty Ltd v Wentworth Shire Council [2014] NSWCA 429	NSW	Wentworth Shire Council	NSWCA	Dismissed	Extractive	Council	11 Dec 2014	CONTRACTS - general contractual principles - construction and interpretation of contracts - where local council signed agreement with mining company for rates
Wentworth Shire Council v Bemax Resources Limited and Ors (costs) [2013] NSWSC 1364	NSW	Wentworth Shire Council	NSWSC	Costs	Extractive	Council	12 Sept 2013	COSTS - whether or not costs should be ordered on the usual basis - whether the cost order should reflect the act that the relevant clause of the agreement was ultra vires - whether discovery was unnecessarily extensive - whether the class 3 proceedings were hopeless or the presumption under rule 3.7(3) of the Land and Environment Court Rules 2007(NSW) should be followed - whether the fact that proceedings were erroneously commenced against the joint venturers for the Gingko rates should have a
Wentworth Shire Council v Bemax Resources Limited and Ors [2013] NSWSC 1047	NSW	Wentworth Shire Council	NSWSC	Other	Extractive	Mixed	2 Aug 2013	CONTRACTS - construction of the contract - whether a clause limited council rates to $100K (plus "pegged" increases) for twenty years - issue of material to which the Court can have regard in the case of ambiguity and the relevance of the outcome of a particular construction (illegality or void contract) - alternative claims in estoppel and rectification raised but not determined. ADMINISTRATIVE LAW - whether the council's agreement to fix rates for twenty years in the manner contained in clause
Peregrine Mineral Sands Pty Ltd v Wentworth Shire Council [2012] NSWLEC 237	NSW	Wentworth Shire Council	NSWLEC	Other	Extractive	Applicant	19 Oct 2012	PRACTICE AND PROCEDURE: transfer of proceedings to the Supreme Court
PETTIGREW v WENTWORTH SHIRE COUNCIL [2012] NSWSC 624	NSW	Wentworth Shire Council	NSWSC	—	—	—	12 June 2012	TORTS - negligence - plaintiff lost control of motor vehicle - presence of loose gravel on road at difficult corner - claim against the local authority responsible for maintenance of road - whether local authority responsible for gravel being on road - content of duty of care - foreseeability of risk of harm - breach of duty by depositing gravel on road and/or failing to erect appropriate sign - causation - contributory negligence - failure of driver to keep a proper lookout - DAMAGES - nature a
Berryman v Joslyn; Wentworth Shire Council v Joslyn (2) [2004] NSWCA 239	NSW	Wentworth Shire Council	NSWCA	—	—	—	16 July 2004	COSTS - contributory negligence - first appeal reversed by High Court - party successful on remitted hearing re contributory negligence - ultimate liability reduced - determination of costs in first and remitted hearing
Berryman v Joslyn; Wentworth Shire Council v Joslyn [2004] NSWCA 121	NSW	Wentworth Shire Council	NSWCA	—	—	—	23 Apr 2004	TORTS - negligence - contributory negligence - apportionment of liability - whether primary judge erred in assessment of contributory negligence - whether there ought to be separate findings of contributory negligence made in respect of each defendant - whether the original finding of apportionment ought to be disturbed - s74 Motor Accidents Act 1988 (NSW).