Bungendore Residents Group Inc v Palerang Council and Anor (No 5) [2007] NSWLEC 703

Land and Environment Court of New South Wales

CITATION : Bungendore Residents Group Inc v Palerang Council and Anor (No 5) [2007] NSWLEC 703

APPLICANT Bungendore Residents Group Inc

PARTIES : FIRST RESPONDENT Palerang Council SECOND RESPONDENT Navaroo Constructions Pty Ltd

FILE NUMBER(S) : 40302 of 2005

CORAM: Pain J

KEY ISSUES: Costs :- exercise of discretion to award costs where applicant successful in obtaining declaration of invalidity of development consent - whether apportionment of costs should be ordered in multiple-issue proceedings - appropriate costs order where respondent council files early submitting appearance - whether some costs unneccessarily incurred

Environmental Planning and Assessment Act 1979 Land and Environment Court Act 1979 s 25B, s 69 LEGISLATION CITED: Land and Environment Court Rules 1996 Pt 6 r 1(1) Supreme Court Rules 1970 Pt 11 r 4(3), Pt 52 r 11(2) Yarrowlumla Local Environmental Plan 2002

Booksan Pty Ltd, Jaymay Constructions Pty Ltd v Wehbe, Elmir & Ors; GIO General Ltd and GIO Workers Compensation (NSW) Ltd v Wehbe, Elmir & Ors (No 2) [2006] NSWCA 103; Bungendore Residents Group Inc v Palerang Council and Anor (No 3) [2007] NSWLEC 251; Bungendore Residents Group Inc v Palerang Council and Anor (No 4) [2007] NSWLEC 536; Cutcliffe v Lithgow City Council (2006) 147 LGERA 330; CASES CITED: Dodds Family Investments Pty Ltd (formerly Solar Tint Pty Ltd) v Lane Industries Pty Ltd, (FCA, Gummow, French and Hill JJ, 18 May, 2 June 1993, unreported); GPT Re Ltd v Wollongong City Council (2006) 151 LGERA 174; Residents Against Improper Development Incorporated v Chase Property Investments Pty Ltd (2006) 149 LGERA 361; Oshlack v Richmond River Council (1998) 193 CLR 72; Waters v PC Henderson (Aust) Pty Ltd (NSWCA, 6 July 1994, unreported)