Belmorgan Property Development Pty Ltd v GPT Re Ltd & Anor [2007] NSWCA 171

Reported Decision: 153 LGERA 450

New South Wales Court of Appeal

CITATION: Belmorgan Property Development Pty Ltd v GPT Re Ltd & Anor [2007] NSWCA 171 This decision has been amended. Please see the end of the judgment for a list of the amendments.

HEARING DATE(S): 1 June 2007

JUDGMENT DATE: 18 July 2007

JUDGMENT OF: Beazley JA; Tobias JA; Basten JA

DECISION: Appeal dismissed with costs

CATCHWORDS: DEVELOPMENT CONSENT – Validity – Delegation of Council powers– Power to determine a development application – Whether a delegation of power to approve a particular development application is a valid delegation – Whether a delegation to approve a particular development application fettered the delegate's previously delegated power to determine development applications with respect to that particular application – Local Government Act 1993 s 377 – Environmental Planning and Assessment Act 1979 ss 79C(1), 80(1)

Environmental Planning and Assessment Act 1979 LEGISLATION CITED: Interpretation Act 1987 Local Government Act 1993 Local Government (Meetings) Regulation 1999

Attorney-General ex rel Goddard v North Sydney Municipal Council [1971] 2 NSWLR 373 Attorney-General (NSW); ex rel McKellar v The Commonwealth (1977) 139 CLR 527 Australian National Airways v The Commonwealth (1945) 71 CLR 29 Centro Properties Ltd v Hurstville City Council (2004) 135 LGERA 257; [2004] NSWLEC 401 Everall v Kuringai Municipal Council (1991) 72 LGRA 369 CASES CITED: Fuller v Bellingen Shire Council [1988] NSWLEC 40 GPT Re Ltd v Wollongong City Council (2006) 151 LGERA 116; [ 2006 ] NSWLEC 303 The Minister for Urban Affairs & Planning v Rosemount Estates Pty Ltd (1996) 91 LGERA 31 Silk Bros Pty Ltd v State Electricity Commission of Victoria (1943) 67 CLR 1 Singh v Minister of Immigration, Local Government & Ethnic Affairs (1989) 90 ALR 397 Weal v Bathurst City Council [1999] NSWLEC 132 Weal v Bathurst City Council (2000) 111 LGERA 181; [2000] NSWCA 88