Cobden-Jones & Anor v Woollahra Municipal Council & Ors [2002] NSWLEC 2

Reported Decision : 118 LGERA 41

Land and Environment Court of New South Wales

CITATION : Cobden-Jones & Anor v Woollahra Municipal Council & Ors [2002] NSWLEC 2 FIRST APPLICANT Alison Cobden-Jones

SECOND APPLICANT Martin Jeremy Watts

FIRST RESPONDENT Woollahra Municipal Council PARTIES : SECOND RESPONDENT Ercole Palazzetti Pty Ltd

THIRD RESPONDENT William Dunleath Blackshaw

FOURTH RESPONDENT Rhonda Lynette Blackshaw FILE NUMBER(S) : 40052 of 2002 CORAM: Sheahan J KEY ISSUES: Judicial Review :- development consent - validity - assessment of development application against a Council resolution adopting "urban design guidelines" - status of such resolution - relation of guidelines to local environmental plan and development control plan - development standards - use of SEPP 1 objections - questions of "finality" of consent - advertisement of consent as time-bar to challenge - ultra vires - relevant and irrelevant considerations - misdirection - attribution of weight - discretion - costs Environmental Planning and Assessment Act 1979 Environmental Planning and Assessment Regulation 1994 Environmental Planning and Assessment Regulation 2000 LEGISLATION CITED: Local Government Act 1993 State Environmental Planning Policy No.1 Woollahra Local Environmental Plan 1995 Double Bay Development Control Plan Attorney General for the State of NSW v Quin (1990) 170 CLR 1; Brimbella Pty Ltd v Mosman Municipal Council (1985) 79 LGERA 367 ; Bruce v Cole & Ors (1998) 45 NSWLR 163; Carstens v Pittwater Council (1999) 111 LGERA 1; Coles v Woollahra Municipal Council (1986) 59 LGERA 133; Corkhill v Hope (1991) 74 LGRA 33; Currey v Sutherland Shire Council & Ors (1998) 100 LGERA 365; Darling Casino Ltd v NSW Casino Control Authority & Ors (1997) 191 CLR 602; Fast Buck$ v Byron ShireCouncil (1999) 103 LGERA 94; Healesville Holdings Pty Ltd v Pittwater Council (1997) 97 LGERA 95; Hewitt v Hurstville Council [2001] NSWLEC 294; Hooker Corporation Pty Ltd v Hornsby Shire Council (Cripps J, 10601 of 1985, 2 June 1986); Hortis v Manly Council & Anor (1999) 104 LGERA 43; King v Great Lakes Shire Council & Anor (1986) 58 LGRA 366; Lainson v Sutherland Shire Council (1998) 108 LGERA 1; Lavender View Regency Pty Ltd v North Sydney Council (1999) 104 LGERA 255; Legal & General Life of Australia Ltd v North Sydney Municipal Council & Anor (1989) 68 LGRA 192 and (1990) 69 LGRA 201; Leichhardt Council v Minister for Planning [No.2] (1995) 87 LGERA 78; Ligon v North Sydney Council (1996) 93 LGERA 23; Londish v Knox Grammar School & Ors (1997) 97 LGERA 1; Manly Council v Hortis & Anor [2001] 113 LGERA 321; CASES CITED: Memel Holdings v Pittwater Council [2000] NSWLEC 206; Minister for Aboriginal Affairs & Anor v Peko-Wallsend Limited & Ors (1986) 162 CLR 24; Minister for Urban Affairs & Planning v Rosemount Estate Pty Ltd & Ors (1996) 91 LGERA 31; Mison v Randwick Municipal Council (1991) 73 LGRA 349 and 23 NSWLR 734; Norsmith Nominees Pty Ltd v Woollahra Municipal Council & Anor [1989] NSWLEC 14; North Sydney Municipal Council v Parlby (10613 of 1985, Stein J, 13 November 1986); Oshlack v Richmond River Shire Council (1993) 82 LGERA 222; Parramatta City Council v Pestell (1972) 128 CLR 305 at 323; Parramatta City Council & Anor v Hale & Ors (1982) 47 LGRA 319; Randwick Municipal Council v Manousaki (1988) 66 LGRA 330; R v Hickman & Ors; Ex parte Fox and Clinton & Ors (1945) 70 CLR 598; Re Drake and the Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs (No.2) (1979) 2 ALD 634; Rosemount Estates Pty Ltd & Anor v Minister for Urban Affairs and Planning & Anor (1996) 90 LGERA 1; Scott & Ors v Wollongong City Council & Anor (1992) 75 LGRA 112; Sericott Pty Ltd v Snowy River Shire Council (1998) 100 LGERA 71; Sommerville v Dalby & Ors (1990) 69 LGRA 422; Taperell & Anor v Randwick City Council (2000) 108 LGERA 309; Transport Action Group Againt Motorways Inc v Roads & Traffic Authority & Anor (1999) 46 NSWLR 598; Warringah Shire Council v Pittwater Provisional Council (1992) 76 LGRA 231; Weal v Bathurst City Council & Anor (2000) 111 LGERA 181; Winn v Director General of National Parks & Wildlife & Ors [2001] NSWCA 17; Winten Property Group Ltd v North Sydney Council [2001] NSWLEC 46; Zhang v Canterbury City Council (2001) 115 LGERA 373 DATES OF HEARING: 10/12/2001-14/12/2001 DATE OF JUDGMENT: 01/14/2002