Owners Corporation of Strata Plan 30859 v Roads and Traffic Authority of NSW [2009] NSWLEC 135

Reported Decision : 168 LGERA 30

Land and Environment Court of New South Wales

CITATION : Owners Corporation of Strata Plan 30859 v Roads and Traffic Authority of NSW [2009] NSWLEC 135

APPLICANT Owners Corporation of Strata Plan 30859 PARTIES : RESPONDENT Roads and Traffic Authority of New South Wales

FILE NUMBER(S) : 30742 of 2007

CORAM: Sheahan J

KEY ISSUES: COMPULSORY ACQUISITION OF LAND :- right of body corporate to claim for injurious affection to individual units in strata scheme; market value; disturbance

Interpretation Act 1987 Land Acquisition (Just Terms Compensation) Act 1991 LEGISLATION CITED: Strata Schemes (Freehold Development) Act 1973 Strata Schemes Management Act 1996 Wyong Local Environmental Plan 1991

Commissioner of Highways v George Eblen Pty Ltd (1975) 34 LGRA 207 Cooper Brookes (Wollongong) Pty Ltd v Federal Commissioner of Taxation [1981] HCA 26; (1981) 147 CLR 297 Dillon v Gosford City Council [2008] NSWLEC 186 Houghton v Immer (No.155) Pty Ltd (1997) 44 NSWLR 46 Lin v Owners Corp-Strata Plan 50276 [2004] NSWSC 88 Marshall v Director General, Department of Transport (2001) 205 CLR 603 CASES CITED: Mir Bros Unit Constructions Pty Ltd v Roads and Traffic Authority of New South Wales [2004] NSWLEC 612 Owners of Strata Plan 30064 v Roads and Traffic Authority [2003] NSWLEC 248 Owners of Strata Plan 30064 v Roads and Traffic Authority [2003] NSWLEC 368 Page & Anor v Sutherland Shire Council [2000] NSWLEC 125 Project Blue Sky Inc & Ors v Australian Broadcasting Authority (1998) 194 CLR 355 Roads & Traffic Authority (NSW) v Peak [2007] NSWCA 66 York Bros (Trading) Pty Ltd v Commissioner of Main Roads [1983] 1 NSWLR 391