Gunning Sustainable Development Association Inc v Upper Lachlan Council and Another [2005] NSWLEC 23

Land and Environment Court of New South Wales

CITATION : Gunning Sustainable Development Association Inc v Upper Lachlan Council and Another [2005] NSWLEC 23

APPLICANT Gunning Sustainable Development Association Inc

FIRST RESPONDENT PARTIES : Upper Lachlan Council

SECOND RESPONDENT Tinvest Pty Limited

FILE NUMBER(S) : 40498 of 2004

CORAM: Talbot J

KEY ISSUES: Development Consent :- approached as in principle consent - effect of integrated development provision - failure to consider essential matters - whether highway service centre designated development as petroleum works - whether material in Council file deemed to be taken into account unless proved otherwise - test for deferred commencement conditions of consent.

Environmental Planning and Assessment Act 1979 s 76(1)a), s 78A(8)(a), s 80(3), s 91(1), s 91A, s 91(3), s 94 Roads Act 1993 s 138 Water Act 1912 s 112, s 113, s 115, s 116 Environmental Planning and Assessment Regulation 2000 cl 27(a), (b), (c), (d), (e), (f) Sch 3, LEGISLATION CITED: Land and Environment Court Act 1979 s 25B Gunning Local Environmental Plan 1997 cl 37, Sch 3, cl 29, cl 31 State Environmental Planning Policy 11 - Traffic Generating Developments State Environment Planning Policy No. 33 - Hazardous and Offensive Development cl 12, cl 13 , cl 18(2)(d)

Azzopardi and Others v Gosford City Council And Another (2001) 119 LGERA 132 ; Azzopardi and Others v Gosford City Council and Another (2002) 123 LGERA 118 ; Barooga Citizens Action Group Inc v The Council of Shire of Berrigan and Others [1992] NSWLEC 3, 4 February 1992, unreported; Bullivant and Others v Wollongong City Council (Land and Environment Court of New South Wales No. 40105 of 1983, 18 October 1983, unreported; Bullivant and Others v Wollongong City Council (1984) 54 LGRA 77; Carltona Limited v Commissioner of Works (1943) 2 All ER 560; Centro Properties Limited v Hurstville City Council and Another [2004] NSWLEC 401, unreported; Centro Properties v Warringah Council (2003) 128 LGERA 17 ; Emritus v South Sydney Council [1990] NSWLEC 8, unreported 1 February 1990; CASES CITED: Gee v Council of the City of Sydney and Others [2004] NSWLEC 581, unreported; Hill v Woollahra Municipal Council and Others (2003) 127 LGERA 25 ; Levenstrath Community Association Inc v Tomies Timber and Another (2000) 108 LGERA 176 ; Maule v Liporoni and Another (2002) 122 LGERA 140 ; Remath Investments No.6 Pty Ltd v Botany Bay Council (No.2) unreported Land and Environment Court No.10649 of 1996, 11 December 1996 ; Rudman v Tweed Council Land and Environment Court of New South Wales No 10214 of 1993, 28 September 1993, unreported; Schroders Australia Property Management Limited v Shoalhaven City Council and Another [2001] NSWCA 74, unreported; Sell & Parker Pty Ltd v Blacktown Council [2001] NSWLEC 12, unreported; Weal v Bathurst City Council (2000) 111 LGERA 181