Whether extrinsic materials can be used to construe a development consent is discussed in a recent case Quarry Products (Newcastle) Pty Limited and Allandale Blue Metal Pty Limited v Roads and Maritime Services (No.3) [2012] NSWLEC 57. The case related…
ICAC and the Planning Review
In response to ‘The Way Ahead for Planning in NSW? Issues Paper of the NSW Planning System Review’: (December 2011) (Review), the Independent Commission Against Corruption (ICAC) has prepared a submission entitled ‘Anti- Corruption Safeguards and the Planning System’, February,…
On 1 March 2012 the New South Wales Supreme Court delivered a judgment in Ryding v Miles & Ors [2012] NSWSC 153. In issue in the case was whether the terms of a lease obliged the owners to give their…
On 9 March 2012 the NSW Court of Appeal delivered judgment in Bellingen Shire Council v Colavon Pty Limited [2012] NSWCA 34. The case concerned the Council’s failure to install guideposts along a stretch of public road delineating the edge…
Tighter controls on coal seam gas exploration
On 6 March 2012, the Minister for Planning & Infrastructure, together with the Minister for Resources and Energy, announced the release of a draft Code of Practice for Coal Seam Gas Exploration (‘the Draft Code’). The Draft Code is part of…
Landowner’s consent given once and for all
The Land and Environment Court in Rothwell Boys Pty Ltd v Coffs Harbour Council [2012] NSWLEC 19 has recently confirmed that once landowner’s consent is given to a development application, no further consent is required even if the development application…