Serbian Cultural Club 'St Sava' Inc & Serbian Cultural Club Limited v Roads & Traffic Authority of New South Wales [2007] NSWLEC 673

Land and Environment Court of New South Wales

CITATION : Serbian Cultural Club 'St Sava' Inc & Serbian Cultural Club Limited v Roads & Traffic Authority of New South Wales [2007] NSWLEC 673

FIRST APPLICANT Serbian Cultural Club St Sava Inc.

PARTIES : SECOND APPLICANT Serbian Cultural Club Limited

RESPONDENT Roads & Traffic Authority of New South Wales

FILE NUMBER(S) : 30015 of 2003

CORAM: Jagot J

KEY ISSUES: Compulsory Acquisition of Land :- compensation - market value - highest and best use - loss attributable to disturbance - whether applicants' claims inconsistent - whether compensation for loss attributable to disturbance precluded by s 61 of Act - flooding impacts

Environmental Planning and Assessment Act 1979 LEGISLATION CITED: Land Acquisition (Just Terms Compensation) Act 1991 Liverpool Local Environmental Plan 1997

Blacktown City Council v Fitzpatrick Investments Pty Ltd [2001] NSWCA 259; Commissioner of Succession Duties (South Australia) v Executor Trustee and Agency Company of South Australia Limited and Others (1947) 74 CLR 358 ; Commonwealth v Milledge (1953) 90 CLR 157; Constantino v Roads and Traffic Authority of New South Wales (2004) 135 LGERA 365; Fitzpatrick Investments Pty Ltd v Blacktown City Council (No 2) (2000) 108 LGERA 417 ; Gosford Shire Council v Green (1980) 48 LGRA 201 ; CASES CITED: Marshall v Director-General, Department of Transport (2001) 205 CLR 603 ; Mosca v Roads and Traffic Authority (2004) 139 LGERA 28; Peter Croke Holdings Pty Ltd v Roads and Traffic Authority of NSW (1998) 101 LGERA 30 ; Roads and Traffic Authority of New South Wales v Mosca (2006) 146 LGERA 335; Roads & Traffic Authority of New South Wales v Peak [2007] NSWCA 66; Spencer v The Commonwealth of Australia (1907) 5 CLR 418; Woollams v The Minister (1957) 75 WN (NSW) 103