Lend Lease GPT (Rouse Hill) Pty Ltd v The Hills Shire Council [2010] NSWLEC 130

Reported Decision : 175 LGERA 169

Land and Environment Court of New South Wales

CITATION : Lend Lease GPT (Rouse Hill) Pty Ltd v The Hills Shire Council [2010] NSWLEC 130

APPLICANT Lend Lease GPT (Rouse Hill) Pty Ltd

PARTIES : RESPONDENT The Hills Shire Council

THE INTERVENERS The Minister Administering the Environmental Planning and Assessment Act 1979 & Landcom

FILE NUMBER(S) : 30125 of 2009

CORAM: Sheahan J

KEY ISSUES: RATING :- availability of statutory exemptions from rating; is the subject land owned by the Crown held under a lease for public or for private purposes; tests to be applied

Environmental Planning and Assessment Act 1979 Landcom Corporation Act 2001 LEGISLATION CITED: Local Government Act 1919 Local Government Act 1993 Sydney Regional Environmental Plan No 19 - Rouse Hill Development Area

Brush Park Bowling Club Ltd v Ryde Municipal Council (1970) 19 LGRA 380 Chalford Holdings Pty Ltd and others v Sydney City Council 78 LGERA 212 City of Rockingham v Port Kennedy Resorts Pty Ltd (1999) 107 LGERA 296 Equestrian Sports Centre v Campbelltown City Council (1987) 9 NSWLR 126 Goulburn City Council v Haines (1992) 78 LGERA 281 Knowles v Newcastle Corporation (1909) 9 CLR 534 CASES CITED: MWSDB v Botany and Mascot Municipal Councils (1935) 12 LGR(NSW) 116 Port Kennedy Resorts Pty Ltd v City of Rockingham (2000) 112 LGERA 296 Ryde Municipal Council v Macquarie University (1978) 139 CLR 633 Statewide Roads Pty Ltd Holroyd City Council (1996) 39 NSWLR 115 Sydney City Council v Garbett Pty Ltd (1993) 80 LGERA 289 Sydney City Council v University of Technology, Sydney (1992) 78 LGERA 200 Sydney Grammar School v Sydney City Council (1957) 3 LGRA 68