Beach Court Pty Limited v Roads and Traffic Authority of NSW (No 2) [2007] NSWLEC 636

Land and Environment Court of New South Wales

CITATION : Beach Court Pty Limited v Roads and Traffic Authority of NSW (No 2) [2007] NSWLEC 636

APPLICANT Beach Court Pty Limited PARTIES : RESPONDENT Roads and Traffic Authority of New South Wales

FILE NUMBER(S) : 31243 of 2005

CORAM: Jagot J

KEY ISSUES: Compulsory Acquisition of Land :- compensation - market value - insufficient comparable sales of en globo residential land - hypothetical development method - gross realisations - profit and risk factor

Environmental Planning and Assessment Act 1979 Land Acquisition (Just Terms Compensation) Act 1991 LEGISLATION CITED: Rural Fires Act 1997 State Environmental Planning Policy No 44 - Koala Habitat Protection State Environmental Planning Policy No 71 - Coastal Protection

Beach Court Pty Ltd v Roads and Traffic Authority of NSW [2006] NSWLEC 780 ; Boland v Yates Property Corporation Pty Ltd (1999) 167 ALR 575 ; Commissioner of Succession Duties (South Australia) v Executor Trustee and Agency Company of South Australia Limited and Others (1947) 74 CLR 358 ; De Ieso v Commissioner of Highways (1981) 27 SASR 248 ; CASES CITED: EJ Cooper & Son Pty Limited v Baulkham Hills Shire Council (2003) 131 LGERA 226 ; Maurici v Chief Commissioner of Revenue (2003) 212 CLR 111; Minister Administering the Environmental Planning and Assessment Act 1979 v Bautovich (2005) 142 LGERA 331 ; Spencer v The Commonwealth of Australia (1907) 5 CLR 418 ; Turner v Minister for Public Instruction (1956) 95 CLR 245