MCC Energy Pty Limited v Wyong Shire Council and Others [2004] NSWLEC 16

Land and Environment Court of New South Wales

CITATION : MCC Energy Pty Limited v Wyong Shire Council and Others [2004] NSWLEC 16 APPLICANT MCC Energy Pty Limited (ACN 056 331 554)

FIRST RESPONDENT Wyong Shire Council PARTIES : SECOND RESPONDENT Scott James Ford

THIRD RESPONDENT Lorraine Gayle Ford FILE NUMBER(S) : 41031 of 2002 CORAM: Cowdroy J KEY ISSUES: Development Consent :- consent granted pursuant to delegation - conditions of exercise of delegation not fulfilled - consent granted contrary to Council's policy and objectives - consent granted against significant public objection - consent granted to development application having minor differences to previous application for which refusal was recommended - considerations for refusal of previous application identical to subsequent application - grant of consent unreasonable in Wednesbury sense - order for removal of contravening structure. Environmental Planning and Assessment Act 1979, s 79(1)(b), s 79A(2), s 79C(1) Land and Environment Court Act 1979, s 69 LEGISLATION CITED: Local Government Act 1993, s 378 State Environment Planning Policy No. 6, cl 3(a), cl 6(1), Wyong Local Environmental Plan 1991 Associated Provincial Picture Houses Ltd v Wednesbury Corporation [1948] 1 KB 223; Attorney-General v Greenfield and Others (1961) 6 LGRA 230; Auckland Lai v Warringah Shire Council (1985) 58 LGERA 276; Glowpace Pty Ltd v South Sydney City Council (2000) 111 LGERA 84; Hardi v Woollahra Municipal Council (unreported, Land and Environment Court of New South Wales, Cripps J, 17 December 1987); Hornsby Shire Council v Malcolm (1986) 60 LGRA 429; Hornsby Shire Council v Porter and Others (1990) 19 NSWLR 716; CASES CITED: Kioa and Others v West and Another (1985) 159 CLR 550; Lyons v Sutherland Shire Council and Others (2001) 117 LGERA 334; Marsh & Nass v North Sydney Council (Bignold J, Land and Environment Court New South Wales, 29 February 1996, unreported); Parkes and Spencer v Rastogi and Newcastle City Council (1992) 78 LGERA 71; Proprietors of SP 13318 & 13555 v Lavender View Regency Pty Ltd and North Sydney Council (1997) 97 LGERA 337; Rowley v New South Wales Leather and Trading Co Pty Ltd and Woollahra Municipal Council (1980-82) 46 LGRA 250; Somerville v Dalby (1990) 69 LGERA 422; Tatem Steam Navigation Company Ltd v Inland Revenue Commissioners [1941] 2 KB 194; Warringah Shire Council v Sedevcic (1987) 10 NSWLR 335 10/12/2003 DATES OF HEARING: 11/12/2003 12/12/2003 DATE OF JUDGMENT: 02/18/2004