As land owners across the metropolitan area seek to redevelop land for higher density living, Councils are increasingly imposing requirements on development consents that easements, often for stormwater drainage purposes, be acquired over adjoining properties. Not surprisingly, requests to grant…
Unreasonableness in Risk Management
16 Sep, 2014
It is often considered that it is difficult to have planning decisions set aside on the basis of ‘Wednesbury’ unreasonableness, that is, that the decision is so unreasonable that no reasonable authority could ever have come to it (Associated Provincial Picture Houses…
Government announces $1 billion ‘Fit for the Future’ funding package to encourage Local Government mergers
11 Sep, 2014
The State Government yesterday announced the $1 billion “Fit for the Future” funding package which it has described as “the most significant investment the State has ever made in the local government sector”. The funding package, which responds to the…
In my earlier post, I reported on the role of biodiversity offsets in the development assessment process. It is now clear that biodiversity offsets still have a clear role to play. The Office of Environment and Heritage (‘OEH‘) has recently published a…