Byron Bay Everglades Resort Pty Ltd & Anor v Byron Shire Council & Anor [2000] NSWLEC 81

Land and Environment Court of New South Wales

CITATION : Byron Bay Everglades Resort Pty Ltd & Anor v Byron Shire Council & Anor [2000] NSWLEC 81 revised - 13/06/2000 APPLICANT Byron Bay Everglades Resort Pty Ltd & Anor PARTIES : RESPONDENT Byron Shire Council & Anor FILE NUMBER(S) : 40139 of 1999 CORAM: Cowdroy J KEY ISSUES: Environmental Planning Instruments :- draft local environmental plan - amendment to local environmental plan - no specific criteria required to be considered by council when resolving to make local environmental plan - reasonableness of resolution to make local environmental plan dependent on knowledge of council - public exhibition of local environmental plan not incomplete or misleading - resolution to recommend Local Environmental Plan for gazettal reasonable where Part 3 of the Environmental Planning and Assessment Act 1979 has been satisfied - council complying with provisions of Part 3 of the EP&A Act and therefore providing procedural fairness to landholders affected by local environmental plan - absence of environmental study as required by Direction pursuant to s 117 of the EP&A Act not necessarily resulting in invalidity of draft local environmental plan. LEGISLATION CITED: Environmental Planning and Assessment Act 1979 Prasad v Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs (1985) 6 FCR 155 ; Minister for Aboriginal Affairs and Anor v Peko-Wallsend limited and Ors (1986-87) 162 CLR 24; Carltona Limited v Commissioner of Works [1943] 2 All ER 560 ; Sean Investments v MacKellar (1981) 38 ALR 363 ; Associated Provincial Houses Ltd v Wednesbury Corporation [1948] 1 KB 223 ; Leichhardt Municipal Council v Minister for Planning & Director of Planning (1992) 78 LGERA (CA) 306 ; John Brown Lenton & Co Pty Limited v Minister for Urban Affairs Planning and Ors [1999] NSWLEC 213, unreported; Vanmeld Pty Limited v Fairfield City Council and Anor (1998-1999) 101 LGRA 297; CASES CITED: Parramatta City Council & Anor v Hale & Ors (1981-82) 47 LGRA 319 ; Monaro Acclimatisation Society & Anor v the Minister for Planning & Anor, (Stein J, NSWLEC, 2 March 1989, unreported); Canterbury District Ratepayers Association Inc v Canterbury Municipal Council (1991) 73 LGRA 317 ; Brooks v Minister for planning and Environment (1988) 68 LGRA 91 ; Coles Supermarkets Australia Pty Ltd v Minister for Urban Affairs and planning (1996) 90 LGERA 341; Gibson v Skibs A/S Marina and Orkla Grobe A/B and Smith Coggins, Ltd. [1966] 2 All ER 476 ; Luu v Renevier (1989) 91 ALR 39; Project Blue Sky Inc v Australian Broadcasting Authority (1998) 194 CLR 355 ; Belongil Progress Association Inc v Byron Shire Council & Anor [1999] NSWLEC 271 ; The City of Parramatta v Pestell (1972-1973) 128 CLR 305; DATES OF HEARING: 14/3/00, 15/3/00, 20/3/00, 21/3/00, 22/3/00 DATE OF JUDGMENT: 05/29/2000