The Land and Environment Court in the recent case of Friends of King Edward Park Inc v Newcastle City Council (No 2) [2015] NSWLEC 76 found that a commercial function centre proposed to be used for private events such as…
Rockdale City Council has lost its appeal against the decision to award substantial damages to a cyclist who suffered severe injury when he rode his bicycle into a boom gate that had been erected by the Council across a public…
The New South Wales Court of Appeal has issued an important reminder that a council’s general power to enter into contracts does not allow it to charge fees other than those struck in accordance with the mandatory procedures for the fixing of fees for…
Government clarifies minimum apartment size rules
18 May, 2015
Minister Stokes has announced that the NSW Government will retain the rules mandating the minimum size of apartments but the new sizes will be less than specified in the current edition of the Residential Flat Design Code.
NSW Coal Seam Gas drilling suspension overturned
14 May, 2015
The Supreme Court recently decided that the NSW Government’s decision to suspend an approval allowing coal seam gas exploration drilling was invalid. The Court held that: a breach of the community consultation requirements in the coal seam gas exploration approval could not,…
Former NSW Treasury Secretary Michael Lambert’s first publication in the independent review of the Builders Professional Act 2005 has failed to address the issue of the validity of construction certificates that are issued unlawfully.