Tegra (NSW) Pty Limited v Gundagai Shire Council and Anor [2007] NSWLEC 806

Reported Decision : (2007) 160 LGERA 1

Land and Environment Court of New South Wales

CITATION : Tegra (NSW) Pty Limited v Gundagai Shire Council and Anor [2007] NSWLEC 806

APPLICANT Tegra (NSW) Pty Limited

PARTIES : FIRST RESPONDENT Gundagai Shire Council

SECOND RESPONDENT Martin Hay Plant Hire & Earthmoving Pty Ltd

FILE NUMBER(S) : 41166 of 2007

CORAM: Preston CJ

KEY ISSUES: Injunctions and Declarations :- interlocutory injunction - application to restrain carrying out of quarry in accordance with development consent - principles governing grant of interlocutory injunction - serious questions to be tried as to breach of statutory provisions for notification before and after grant of consent and in grant of consent - balance of convenience - factors discussed - balance of convenience favours not granting interlocutory injunction

Environmental Planning and Assessment Act 1979 s 77A, s 78A, s 79, s 79C s 81, s 97, s 98, s 123, s 124 LEGISLATION CITED: Rivers and Foreshores Improvement Act 1948 Part 3A Land and Environment Court Act 1979 s 20(2)

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