NSW Caselaw
New South Wales Supreme Court
CITATION : Jessica Estates v Lennard [2007] NSWSC 1175
HEARING DATE(S) : 2 October 2007
JUDGMENT DATE : 22 October 2007
JURISDICTION : Equity
JUDGMENT OF : Austin J
DECISION : Section 88B Instrument not rendered inapplicable by local environmental plan because relevant restrictions did not relate to "land use": see answers to questions for separate determination, under heading "Conclusions"
CATCHWORDS : REAL PROPERTY - restriction on user of land under s 88B Conveyancing Act - whether restriction rendered inapplicable by s 28 Environmental Planning and Assessment Act and local environmental plan that declared that an instrument that prohibits a land use allowed by the plan would not apply to that land use - meaning of "prohibits" - meaning of "land use" - distinction between "development" and "land use"
Conveyancing Act 1919 (NSW) s 88B LEGISLATION CITED : Environmental Planning & Assessment Act 1979 (NSW) ss 4, 4B, 25, 28, 30, 31, 76, 76A, 76B Singleton Local Environmental Plan, cl 2, 3, 6, 11, 16 Uniform Civil Procedure Rules, rule 28.2
Al-Kateb v Goodwin (2004) 219 CLR 562 Application of Thompson (McLelland CJ in Eq, unreported, Supreme Court of New South Wales, 25 October 1993) Coles Supermarkets Australia Pty Ltd v Minister for Urban Affairs and Planning (1996) 90 LGERA 341 Coshott v Ludwig (1997) 8 BPR 15,519 Cracknell and Lonergan Pty Ltd v Council of the City of Sydney [2007] NSWLEC 392 Doe v Cogente Pty Ltd (1997) 94 LGERA 305 Ex parte Cottman; re McKinnon (1934) 35 SR (NSW) 7 Foley v Padley (1984) 154 CLR 349 Hanwood Pastoral Co Pty Ltd v Director-General, Department of Natural Resources [2005] NSWLEC 664 CASES CITED : Hillpalm Pty Ltd v Heaven's Door Pty Ltd (2004) 220 CLR 472 Lodhi v Regina (2006) 199 FLR 303 Ludwig v Coshott (1994) 83 LGERA 22 Lyne v Moree Plains Shire Council (1999) 110 LGERA 120 Nancy Shetland Pty Ltd v Melbourne & Metropolitan Board of Works (1974) 48 ALJR 448 Natva Developments Pty Ltd v McDonald Bros Pty Ltd [2004] NSWSC 777 O'Connell v Nixon [2007] VSCA 131 Owens v Longhurst [1998] NSWSC 387 Shanahan v Scott (1957) 96 CLR 245 Swan Hill Corporation v Bradbury (1937) 56 CLR 746 Young v Gosford City Council (2001) 120 LGERA 243
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