Changes to a staged residential subdivision in Burnside were considered to be permissible changes
Highgate Developments Pty Ltd v Sunshine Coast Regional Council – What’s the case about? The Planning and Environment Court delivered a decision in the matter of Highgate Developments Pty Ltd v Sunshine Coast Regional Council [2017] QPEC37 which involved a permissible change request made by Highgate Developments Pty Ltd to the Sunshine Coast Regional Council […]
ReadmoreCouncil was ordered to pay the applicant’s costs insofar as it related to a hearing to determine whether conditions ought to be included in a development approval for a residential development in Morayfield
The Planning and Environment Court in the matter of Wust v Moreton Bay Regional Council (No. 2) [2017] QPEC 36 made an order requiring the Moreton Bay Regional Council to pay Brian Wust’s costs of the appeal to the extent that the costs related to the disputed conditions. Otherwise, each party was to bear their […]
ReadmoreDenial of procedural fairness – remit to a new Committee
Amos v Brisbane City Council – What’s the case about? The Planning and Environment Court delivered a decision in the case of Amos v Brisbane City Council [2017] QPEC 33 which involved an appeal by Edward Amos against the decision of the Building and Development Committee to allow the Brisbane City Council to give him an […]
ReadmoreApproval of a subdivision of productive agricultural or rural land in Mothar Mountain
The Planning and Environment Court delivered a decision in the case of Wason v Gympie Regional Council [2017] QPEC 34, which involved an appeal by Lee Wason against the Gympie Regional Council’s decision to refuse a development application for a development permit for reconfiguring a lot (1 into 2) on land located in Mothar Mountain. […]
ReadmoreCharacter housing is important to the community
Althaus & Anor v Brisbane City Council – What’s the case about? The Planning and Environment Court delivered a decision in the case of Althaus & Anor v Brisbane City Council [2017] QPEC 41 which involved an appeal by Nathan and Laura Althaus against the Brisbane City Council’s decision to refuse their development application seeking a […]
ReadmoreVictorian Government implements first stage of environmental protection overhaul
The Victorian Government recently introduced a bill to parliament as the first stage of the long anticipated overhaul to Victorian environmental protection legislation. 1. Background In 2016, an independent ministerial advisory committee conducted an inquiry into the Environment Protection Authority Victoria (EPA). As previously reported by Partner, Meg Lee, and lawyer, Linda Choi, the […]
ReadmoreEnforcement orders issued to remedy significant risks posed by unlawful carport and photovoltaic solar panels structures
Gold Coast City Council v Bush & Anor – What’s the case about? The Planning and Environment Court delivered a decision in the case of Gold Coast City Council v Bush & anor [2017] QPEC 29 which involved an application made by Gold Coast City Council to the Court seeking an enforcement order under section 604 […]
ReadmoreApproval of an extension request for multiple unit residential development – consistent with current planning scheme and sufficient community awareness
Lake Maroona Pty Ltd v Gladstone Regional Council – What’s the case about? The Planning and Environment Court of Queensland delivered a decision in the case of Lake Maroona Pty Ltd v Gladstone Regional Council [2017] QPEC 25 which involved an appeal by Lake Maroona against the Gladstone Regional Council’s refusal of a request for […]
ReadmoreLand use code can still be incorporated to rating category description even though it is not approved by resolution
Ugarin Pty Ltd v Lockyer Valley Regional Council – What’s the case about? The Supreme Court of Queensland delivered a decision in the case of Ugarin Pty Ltd v Lockyer Valley Regional Council [2017] QSC 122 which involved a judicial review challenge by Ugarin Pty Ltd against the Lockyer Valley Regional Council’s decision relating to differential […]
Readmore3 residential towers approved on former ABC site despite significant conflicts with planning scheme
The Planning and Environment Court delivered a decision in the case of Bell v Brisbane City Council & Ors [2017] QPEC 26 which involved an appeal commenced by a submitter Kate Bell against the Council’s decision to approve, subject to conditions, a development application made by Sunland Developments No. 8 Pty Ltd. The development application […]
ReadmoreObjection to an expansion of issues in dispute results in an adverse costs order
The Planning and Environment Court in LMRM Pty Ltd v BrisbanCity Council [2017] QPEC 7 made an order that LMRM Pty Ltd pay the Brisbane City Council’s costs of and incidental to its application to expand the issues in dispute in the appeal, on a standard basis. The appeal related to the Council’s decision to refuse […]
ReadmoreNo ability to regularise an unlawful industrial use in Rocklea
The Planning and Environment Court in Delta Contractors (Aust) Pty Ltd v Brisbane City Council [2017] QPEC 13 dismissed an appeal by Delta Contractors (Aust) Pty Ltd against the Brisbane City Council’s refusal of its development application for a development permit for a material change of use for a warehouse with an ancillary office and […]
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