Baulkham Hills Shire Council v Ko-veda Holiday Park Estate Limited (No 2), Baulkham Hills Shire Council v Ko-veda Holiday Park Estate Limited [2010] NSWLEC 79

Reported Decision : 176 LGERA 356

Land and Environment Court of New South Wales

CITATION : Baulkham Hills Shire Council v Ko-veda Holiday Park Estate Limited (No 2), Baulkham Hills Shire Council v Ko-veda Holiday Park Estate Limited [2010] NSWLEC 79

APPLICANT PARTIES : Baulkham Hills Shire Council RESPONDENT Ko-veda Holiday Park Estate Limited

FILE NUMBER(S) : 40625 of 2007; 41019 of 2009

CORAM: Pain J

DISCRETION :- exercise of discretion to make declarations and orders where Court of Appeal finds breach of EP&A Act - breach not technical - whether Court should order removal of eleven cabins - whether Court should order implementation of different vegetation management plan - whether Council delayed in commencing civil enforcement proceedings KEY ISSUES: ESTOPPEL:- whether Anshun estoppel applies in second proceedings to prevent raising of new issue which could have been raised in closely related proceedings the subject of an appeal

Environmental Planning and Assessment Act 1979 s 4, s 96, s 124 LEGISLATION CITED: Local Government Act 1993 s 68 Rivers and Foreshores Improvement Act 1948 Pt 3A Rural Fires Act 1997 s100B

ACR Trading Pty Ltd v Fat-sel Pty Ltd (1987) 11 NSWLR 67 Anthony Developments Pty Ltd v Marsden [1999] NSWSC 472; (1999) 29 MVR 262 Associated Minerals Consolidated Ltd v Wyong Shire Council (1974) 29 LGRA 323 Baulkham Hills Shire Council v Ko-veda Holiday Park Estate Ltd & Anor [2008] NSWLEC 181 Baulkham Hills Shire Council v Ko-veda Holiday Park Estate Ltd [2009] NSWCA 160; (2009) 167 LGERA 160 Baulkham Hills Shire Council v Ko-veda Holiday Park Estate Ltd (No 2) [2009] NSWCA 310 CASES CITED: Dates v Karuah Local Aboriginal Land Council & Ors [2009] NSWLEC 221 Day v Pinglen Pty Ltd [1981] HCA 23; (1981) 148 CLR 289 Denis Gelle Pty Ltd and Anor v Baulkham Hills Shire Council [2001] NSWLEC 229 Henderson v Henderson (1843) 67 ER 313 Port of Melbourne Authority v Anshun Pty Ltd [1981] HCA 45; (1981) 147 CLR 589 Rahme v Commonwealth Bank of Australia (Court of Appeal (NSW), 20 December 1991, unreported) Warringah Shire Council v Sedevcic (1987) 10 NSWLR 335 Zavodnyik v Alex Constructions Pty Ltd [2005] NSWCA 438; (2005) 67 NSWLR 457