Metro Transport Sydney Pty Ltd v City of Sydney Council [2009] NSWLEC 37

Land and Environment Court of New South Wales

CITATION : Metro Transport Sydney Pty Ltd v City of Sydney Council [2009] NSWLEC 37

APPLICANT: Metro Transport Sydney Pty Ltd PARTIES : RESPONDENT: City of Sydney Council

FILE NUMBER(S) : 40926 of 2008

CORAM: Biscoe J

KEY ISSUES: JUDICIAL REVIEW :- validity of statutory orders issued by local council to light rail operator to remove third party advertising from pylons supporting the Sydney Monorail - whether such third party advertising is "development for the purposes of a light rail system" or incidental to such development and thus within statutory exemption from requirement to obtain development consent.

Commonwealth of Australia Constitution Act 1900, s 51 Environmental Planning and Assessment Act 1979 , ss 4, 5, 26(1)(g), 76A(1), 121B, 123, 126, Pt 4, Pt 5 LEGISLATION CITED: Interpretation Act 1987, s 50(1)(e) State Environmental Planning Policy No 64 – Advertising and Signage Sydney Local Environmental Plan 2005, cl 37(2) Transport Administration Act 1988, ss 104L, 104M. 104N, 104P, Pt 9 div 2A, Schedule 7 s 76A

Attorney-General v Great Eastern Railway Co (1880) 5 App Cas 473 Bonus Pty Ltd v Leichhardt Municipal Council (1954) 19 LGR 375 Burton v Honan (1952) 86 CLR 169 Cunliffe v Commonwealth (1993-1994) 182 CLR 272 Davis v Commonwealth (1988) 166 CLR 79 Foodbarn Pty Ltd v Solicitor-General (1976) 32 LGRA 157 GG Crespin & Son v Colac Co-operative Farmers Ltd (1916) 21 CLR 205 Grain Pool of Western Australia v Commonwealth [2000] HCA 14, (2000) 202 CLR 479 CASES CITED: Grannall v Marrickville Margarine Pty Ltd (1954-1955) 93 CLR 55 Jumbunna Coal Mine NL v Victorian Coal Miners' Association (1908) 6 CLR 309 Neat Domestic Trading Pty Ltd v AWB Ltd [2003] HCA 35, (2003) 216 CLR 277 Nguyen v Minister for Health & Ageing [2002] FCA 1241 Royal Agricultural Society of New South Wales v Sydney City Council (1987) 61 LGRA 305 Thompson v Council of the Municipality of Randwick (1950) 81 CLR 87 Victoria v Commonwealth (Second Uniform Tax Case) (1957) 99 CLR 575 Warlam Pty Ltd v Marrickville Council [2009] NSWLEC 23 Woollahra Municipal Council v Minister for the Environment (1991) 23 NSWLR 710