Hilltop Planners Pty Limited v Great Lakes Council [2003] NSWLEC 214

> Reported Decision : 127 LGERA 333

Land and Environment Court of New South Wales

CITATION : Hilltop Planners Pty Limited v Great Lakes Council [2003] NSWLEC 214 APPLICANT Hilltop Planners Pty Limited PARTIES : RESPONDENT Great Lakes Council FILE NUMBER(S) : 10540 of 2003 CORAM: Talbot J KEY ISSUES: Development Consent :- whether a valid condition can be imposed to provide for lapse of consent if development not completed by a prescribed date - condition assumed to be valid unless declared to be invalid Estoppel :- condition inserted by modification of consent as part of an agreement with the applicant upon which the council relied LEGISLATION CITED: Environmental Planning and Assessment Act 1979 s 65, s 79C, s 90(1), s 91(3)(a), s 91(3)(d), s 91(3)(f), s 91AA, s 91AA(4), s 91AA(5), s 95, s 96, s 96(2), s 99. s 99(1), s 99(5), s 99(8), s 99(10), s 102, s123 Adelaide Pistol Club Inc. v District Council of Munno Para and Another (1981) 45 LGERA 119; Australand Holdings Ltd v Hornsby Shire Council (1998) 98 LGERA 312; Botany Bay City Council v Galeb Kilzi and Another (17 March 1997, Stein J, unreported); Carstens v Pittwater Council (1999) 111 LGERA 1; DTR Securities Pty Ltd v Sutherland Shire Council (1993) 79 LGERA 88; CASES CITED: Eastern Waste Management Authority Incorporated v City of Tea Tree Gully (1996) 92 LGERA 1; Johnson v Lake Macquarie City Council and Another (1996) 91 LGERA 331; Pulver Cooper & Blackley Pty Ltd v Johnson and Another (1998) 101 LGERA 76; Scott Pools Pty Ltd v City of Salisbury (1979) 42 LGRA 366; Smith v East Elloe Rural District Council [1956] AC 736 at 769 - 770; Swadling and Another v Sutherland Shire Council and Others (1994) 82 LGERA 431; Waltons Stores (Interstate) Ltd v Maher (1988) 164 CLR 387 DATES OF HEARING: 03/09/2003, 04/09/2003 DATE OF JUDGMENT: 09/18/2003