No Dump Residents Association Inc v Collex Pty Limited [2006] NSWCA 94

New South Wales Court of Appeal

CITATION: No Dump Residents Association Inc v Collex Pty Limited [2006] NSWCA 94

HEARING DATE(S): 2 March 2006

JUDGMENT DATE: 28 April 2006

JUDGMENT OF: Spigelman CJ at 1; Giles JA at 52; Tobias JA at 53

DECISION: 1. A order extending the time for the filing and service of the Notice of Contention dated 25 October 2005 up to and including that date; 2. Appeal dismissed; 3. Each party is to pay its own costs of the proceedings in this Court.

CATCHWORDS: ENVIRONMENT AND PLANNING - Environmental planning - Statutes - Interpretation - meaning of "the subject land" in Clyde Waste Transfer Terminal (Special Provisions) Act 2003 (NSW), s4 - COSTS - whether "public interest" litigation - unsuccessful challenge to the validity of development consent - no error in trial judge's discretionary finding that appellants not a "public interest" litigant

Clyde Waste Transfer Terminal (Special Provisions) Act 2003(NSW); s4 LEGISLATION CITED: Environmental Planning and Assessment Act 1979 (NSW); s76A(9), s98(1) Roads Act 1993; s5(2)(b)

CIC Insurance Limited v Bankstown Football Club Limited (1997) 187 CLR 384 Drake & Ors; Auburn Council v Minister for Planning & Anor; Collex Pty Limited [2003] NSWLEC 270 Oslack v Richmond River Council (1994) 82 LGERA 236 CASES CITED: Oslack v Richmond River Council (1998) 193 CLR 72 No Dump Residents Association Incorporated v Collex Pty Limited [2004] NSWLEC 618 No Dump Residents Association Incorporated v Collex Pty Limited (No 2) [2005] NSWLEC 136 No Dump Residents Association Incorporated v Collex Pty Limited (No 3) [2005] NSWLEC 717 Project Blue Sky Inc v Australian Broadcasting Authority (1998) 194 CLR 355