Nasser v Roads and Traffic Authority; Millstar Holdings Pty Limited v Roads and Traffic Authority [2006] NSWLEC 181

Land and Environment Court of New South Wales

CITATION : Nasser v Roads and Traffic Authority; Millstar Holdings Pty Limited v Roads and Traffic Authority [2006] NSWLEC 181

APPLICANTS Fred Nasser George Nasser PARTIES : Michael Nasser Millstar Holdings Pty Ltd

RESPONDENT Roads and Traffic Authority

FILE NUMBER(S) : 30162 of 2003; 30163 of 2003

CORAM: Pain J

KEY ISSUES: Compulsory Acquisition of Land :- definition of public purpose-whether public purpose caused loss-whether highest and best use industrial-development constraints, flooding and ecological constraints-whether betterment should be allowed in comparable sales

Development Control Plan 8 - Natural Assets Development Control Plan 19 – Prestons Industrial Release Area Environmental Planning and Assessment Act 1979 Pt 4, Pt 5, s5A, s78A, s122(1B) LEGISLATION CITED: Land Acquisition (Just Terms Compensation) Act 1991 s4(1), s54(1), s55, s56(1), s66 Liverpool Local Environmental Plan 1997 Liverpool Local Environmental Plan 201 Liverpool Local Environmental Plan 243 Threatened Species Conservation Act 1995 s56(1), s74(1), s127, Pt 3 Sch 1, Pt 6 Div 2

Bautovich v The Minister administering the Environmental Planning and Assessment Act 1979 [2004] NSWLEC 389 ; Crompton v Commissioner of Highways (1973) 32 LGRA 8; Hornsby Shire Council v Vitone Developments Pty Limited [2003] NSWLEC 272 ; Lalic v Roads and Traffic Authority [2005] NSWLEC 430; Makita (Australia) Pty Ltd v Sprowles (2001) 52 NSWLR 705 ; Mir Bros Unit Constructions Pty Limited v Roads and Traffic Authority of New South Wales [2005] NSWLEC 419; CASES CITED: Mosca v Roads and Traffic Authority (2004) 139 LGERA 28 ; San Sebastian Pty Limited v Housing Commission of NSW (1977) 37 LGRA 191; Stephen Anthony Horton and Kay Elizabeth Horton v Wyong Shire Council [2004] NSWLEC 571; Sydney Harbour Foreshore Authority v Walker Corporation Pty Ltd [2005] NSWCA 251 ; VAW (Kurri Kurri) Pty Limited v Scientific Community (2003) 128 LGERA 419; Walker Corporation Pty Limited v Sydney Harbour Foreshore Authority [2004] NSWLEC 315; Wilson v Liverpool Corporation [1971] 1 WLR 302; Woollams v The Minister (1957) 2 LGRA 338