CEAL Limited v Minister for Planning & Ors [2007] NSWLEC 302

Land and Environment Court of New South Wales

CITATION : CEAL Limited v Minister for Planning & Ors [2007] NSWLEC 302

APPLICANT CEAL Limited

FIRST RESPONDENT Minister for Planning PARTIES : SECOND RESPONDENT Goulburn Mulwaree Council

THIRD RESPONDENT Gregory Douglas Gibbons

FILE NUMBER(S) : 10245 of 2006

CORAM: Jagot J - Watts C

KEY ISSUES: Appeal :- designated development - State significant development - quarry - road upgrading - insufficient information to assess impacts of road upgrading - impacts on zoned village - amenity - appeal dismissed

Environmental Planning and Assessment Act 1979 Environmental Planning and Assessment Amendment (Infrastructure and Other Planning Reform) Act 2005 Land and Environment Court Act 1979 LEGISLATION CITED: Roads Act 1993 Mulwaree Local Environmental Plan 1995 Environmental Planning and Assessment Model Provisions 1980 Environmental Planning and Assessment Regulation 2000

BP Australia Ltd v Campbelltown City Council (1994) 83 LGERA 274 ; Goldberg v Waverley Council [2007] NSWLEC 259; New Century Developments Pty Ltd v Baulkham Hills Shire Council (2003) 127 LGERA 303; North Sydney Council v Ligon 302 Pty Ltd (1996) 185 CLR 470 ; CASES CITED: Patrick Autocare Pty Ltd v Minister for Infrastructure, Planning and Natural Resources [2004] NSWLEC 687; Pioneer Concrete (Qld) Pty Ltd v Brisbane City Council and Ors (1980) 145 CLR 485; Sydney City Council v Ipoh Pty Ltd (2006) 149 LGERA 329; Telstra Corp Ltd v Hornsby Shire Council (2006) 146 LGERA 10; Weal v Bathurst City Council (2000) 111 LGERA 181