Silva v Ku-ring-gai Council [2009] NSWLEC 1060

Land and Environment Court of New South Wales

CITATION : Silva v Ku-ring-gai Council [2009] NSWLEC 1060

APPLICANT Nelson Silva PARTIES : RESPONDENT Ku-ring-gai Council

FILE NUMBER(S) : 10805 of 2008

CORAM: Taylor C

KEY ISSUES: DEVELOPMENT APPLICATION :- to pipe an existing open channel watercourse; definition of rivers; application of Water Management Act to tributaries of larger rivers

Environmental Planning and Assessment Act 1979 Land and Environment Court Act 1979 Rivers and Foreshores Improvement Act 1948 Water Managment Act 2000 LEGISLATION CITED: Local Government (General) Regulation 2005 Ku-ring-gai Council's Development Control Plan 38 and 47 State Environmental Planning Policy (Sydney Region Growth Centres) Ku-ring-gai Planning Ordinace Scheme Ku-ring-gai Council Riparian Policy 2004

Narrambulla Action Group Inc v Mulwaree Council 41068 of 1995 [1996] NSWLEC 199 Gartner v Kidman [1962] HCA 27; (1962) 108 CLR 12 Knezovic v Shire of Swan-Guildford [1968] HCA 38; (1968) 118 CLR 468 (21 June 1968) CASES CITED: Warringah Council v Ardel Limited and Anor [2000] NSWLEC 7 Ross G Mitchell v John Baptist Vella and Mary Magdalan Vella [1998] NSWLEC 250 Don Burke and [16] others v Hawkesbury City Council & Ors [2001] NSWLEC 222 BGP Properties Pty Limited v Lake Macquarie City Council [2004] NSWLEC 399