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Overview

This brief summarises the planning position for Parkes Shire Council from the official register record. No rezoning amendments are on record for this council yet; the figures below are counted directly from its development application register and its planning-dispute history.

Rezonings tracked: 0; full register history
Applications, 12 mo: 130; lodged in trailing year
Approval rate: not on record; no outcomes recorded yet
Median decision: 36 days; lodgement to determination

Development activity

Applications lodged in this council in the trailing 12 months, by current status. Counted directly from the development application register.

Total lodged: 130
Lodged: 0
Under assessment: 18
Determined: 111
Withdrawn: 1

The council typically determines an application in a median of 36 days (mean 49), measured across 304 determined applications carrying both a lodgement and a determination date.

See all development applications in Parkes Shire Council

Rezoning pipeline

No proposals are currently in the pipeline for Parkes Shire Council. Gazetted amendments and the full amendment history are below.

Planning disputes

14 matters naming Parkes Shire Council on record across the planning and environment courts and tribunals. Where the judgment has been read, the outcomes break down by prevailing party as Council 2, Applicant 2, Mixed 1 (across 5 enriched matters).

Matter	Court	Decided	Outcome
South West Helicopters Pty Ltd v Stephenson (No 2) [2018] NSWCA 99	NSWCA	11 May 2018	not on record
South West Helicopters Pty Ltd v Stephenson [2017] NSWCA 312	NSWCA	7 Dec 2017	not on record
Ingrid Margaret Stephenson v Parkes Shire Council; Natalee Stephenson v Parkes Shire Council; ; Jay Stephenson v Parkes Shire Council; ; South West Helicopters Pty Limited and anor. v Essential Energy (formerly Country Energy); Parkes Shire Council v South West Helicopters Pty Limited (No 4) [2016] NSWSC 507	NSWSC	10 June 2016	not on record
Ingrid Margaret Stephenson v Parkes Shire Council; Natalee Stephenson v Parkes Shire Council; Jay Stephenson v Parkes Shire Council; South West Helicopters Pty Limited v Essential Energy (formerly Country Energy); Parkes Shire Council v South West Helicopters Pty Limited (No 2) [2015] NSWSC 719	NSWSC	19 June 2015	not on record
Agricultural Equity Investments Pty Ltd v Westlime Pty Ltd (No 3) [2015] NSWLEC 75	NSWLEC	8 May 2015	Dismissed·Council
Ingrid Margaret Stephenson v Parkes Shire Council; Natalee Stephenson v Parkes Shire Council; Jay Stephenson v Parkes Shire Council; South West Helicopters Pty Limited and anor. v Essential Energy (formerly Country Energy); Parkes Shire Council v South West Helicopters Pty Limited [2014] NSWSC 1758	NSWSC	19 Dec 2014	not on record
Agricultural Equity Investments Pty Ltd v Westlime Pty Ltd (No 2) [2014] NSWLEC 53	NSWLEC	6 May 2014	Upheld·Applicant
Agricultural Equity Investments Pty Ltd v Westlime Pty Ltd [2013] NSWLEC 122	NSWLEC	30 July 2013	not on record
Parkes v Byron Shire Council [2004] NSWLEC 722	NSWLEC	22 Nov 2004	Costs·Council
Parkes v Byron Shire Council and Anor (No 2) [2004] NSWLEC 550	NSWLEC	25 Feb 2004	Interlocutory·Mixed
Parkes v Byron Shire Council & Anor [2003] NSWLEC 237	NSWLEC	8 Aug 2003	not on record
Parkes v Byron Shire Council [2003] NSWLEC 104	NSWLEC	5 May 2003	Granted·Applicant
Parkes v Byron Shire Council [2003] NSWLEC 78	NSWLEC	15 Mar 2002	not on record
PARTIES MINISTER FOR MINERALS and ENERGY v VAUGHAN-TAYLOR and ANOR [1991] NSWCA 201	NSWCA	14 May 1991	Other

Matters are matched on council name. We link to the public judgment and never reproduce its text. Outcomes shown where the judgment has been read and structured.

See every Parkes Shire Council dispute in the national list

Sources and provenance

This brief is computed from 130 records held for Parkes Shire Council. Figures are computed directly from source records, never estimated, and gaps are shown as gaps.

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