NSW Caselaw
New South Wales Court of Appeal
CITATION: Hooper v Port Stephens Council & Anor [2010] NSWCA 368
HEARING DATE(S): 15 December 2010 JUDGMENT OF: Tobias JA at 1; Handley AJA at 31; Sackville AJA at 32
EX TEMPORE JUDGMENT DATE: 15 December 2010
DECISION: Appeal dismissed with costs
CATCHWORDS: ENVIRONMENT AND PLANNING – development assessment – consent – interpretation – Port Stephens LEP 2000 – definition of "height" – Port Stephens Development Control Plan 2007 – whether requirement that development not to exceed two storeys was mandatory
Environmental Planning and Assessment Act 1979 LEGISLATION CITED: Port Stephens Development Control Plan 2007 Port Stephens Local Environmental Plan 2000
Caroona Coal Action Group Inc v Coal Mines Australia Pty Limited and Anor (No 3) [2010] NSWLEC 59; (2010) 173 LGERA 280 Hooper v Port Stephens Council & Anor (No 2) [2010] NSWLEC 112 Hooper v Port Stephens Council & Anor (No 3) [2010] NSWLEC 178; (2010) 176 LGERA 97 CASES CITED: Oshlack v Richmond River Council (1998) 193 CLR 72 Port Stephens Council v Chan Industrial Pty Limited [2005] NSWCA 232; (2005) 141 LGERA 226 Zhang v Canterbury City Council [1999] NSWLEC 209; (1999) 105 LGERA 18 Zhang v Canterbury City Council [2001] NSWCA 167; (2001) 51 NSWLR 589
Stephen James Hooper PARTIES: Port Stephens Council Trevlyn Peter Hallett
FILE NUMBER(S): CA 2010/259074
A: In person COUNSEL: 1R: M C Fraser 2R: D W Larkin
A: In person SOLICITORS: 1R: Harris Wheeler Lawyers, Newcastle 2R: Equilaw Solicitors, Muswellbrook
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