Martin v Cootamundra Shire Council and Anor [2008] NSWLEC 220

Land and Environment Court of New South Wales

CITATION : Martin v Cootamundra Shire Council and Anor [2008] NSWLEC 220

APPLICANT Ormonde Robert Martin PARTIES : FIRST RESPONDENT Cootamundra Shire Council SECOND RESPONDENT John Meyer

FILE NUMBER(S) : 40050 of 2008

CORAM: Pain J

KEY ISSUES: Judicial Review :- whether Council decision to grant modification of development consent beyond power - whether Council was functus officio - whether decision to modify consent manifestly unreasonable

Dividing Fences Act 1991 LEGISLATION CITED: Environmental Planning and Assessment Act 1979 s 96 Environmental Planning and Assessment Regulation 2000 cl 122

Associated Provincial Picture Houses, Limited v Wednesbury Corporation [1948] 1 KB 223 Hastings Point Progress Association Inc v Tweed Shire Council and Anor; Hastings Point Progress Association Inc v Tweed Shire Council and Ors [2008] NSWLEC 180 Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs v Kurtovic (1990) 21 FCR 193 CASES CITED: Panagopoulos v Willoughby City Council (1992) 78 LGERA 270 Semunigus v The Minister for Immigration and Multicultural Affairs [1999] FCA 422 Semunigus v Minister for Immigration and Multicultural Affairs (2000) 96 FCR 533 Townsend v Evans Shire Council (2000) 109 LGERA 336

DATES OF HEARING: 23 July 2008

DATE OF JUDGMENT: 1 August 2008

APPLICANT Mr N Eastman SOLICITOR Storey and Gough FIRST RESPONDENT LEGAL REPRESENTATIVES: Mr A Hudson (solicitor) SOLICITOR Wilshire Webb Staunton Beattie SECOND RESPONDENT Mr P Crennan (solicitor) SOLICITOR McIntosh McPhillamy & Co