Lane Cove Council v Orca Partners Management Pty Ltd (No 2) [2015] NSWLEC 52

Land and Environment Court New South Wales

Medium Neutral Citation: Lane Cove Council v Orca Partners Management Pty Ltd (No 2) [2015] NSWLEC 52 Hearing dates: 5 and 6 November 2014; written submissions 6, 10 and 13 November 2014 Date of orders: 07 April 2015 Decision date: 02 April 2015 Jurisdiction: Class 4 Before: Sheahan J Decision: 1. The applicant Council's amended summons is dismissed. 2. Costs are reserved. 3. The Court Book, including Exhibit A4, is to remain in the Court file, but all other exhibits are returned. Catchwords: DEVELOPMENT CONSENT: "concept development approval" – consent granted by Joint Regional Planning Panel – requests made for development standard dispensations under the LEP – whether those requests satisfied requirements of the LEP – jurisdictional fact – Wednesbury unreasonableness – failure to consider mandatory relevant considerations – consideration of irrelevant matters – circumstances in which Director-General's concurrence may be assumed. Legislation Cited: Environmental Planning and Assessment Act 1979 Environmental Planning and Assessment Regulation 2000 Interpretation Act 1987 Lane Cove Local Environmental Plan 2009 Lane Cove Development Control Plan 2010 State Environmental Planning Policy No 65 – Design Quality of Residential Flat Development State Environmental Planning Policy (State and Regional Development) 2011 State Environmental Planning Policy No 1 – Development Standards (NSW) Cases Cited: Arnold v Minister Administering the Water Management Act 2000 (No 6) [2013] NSWLEC 73 Associated Provincial Picture Houses Ltd v Wednesbury Corporation [1948] 1 KB 223 Attorney-General (NSW) v Quin [1990] HCA 21; 170 CLR 1 Australian Broadcasting Tribunal v Bond [1990] HCA 33; 170 CLR 321 Azzopardi v Tasman UEB Industries Ltd (1985) 4 NSWLR 139 Bradshaw v McEwans Pty Ltd (1951) 217 ALR 1 Carstens v Pittwater Council [1999] NSWLEC 249; 111 LGERA 1 Centro Properties Ltd v Hurstville City Council [2004] NSWLEC 401; 135 LGERA 257 City Of Enfield v Development Assessment Commission [2000] HCA 5; 199 CLR 135 Colonial Bank of Australasia v Willan (1874) LR 5 PC 417 Conservation of North Ocean Shores Inc v Byron Shire Council [2009] NSWLEC 69; 167 LGERA 52 Currey v Sutherland Shire Council (1998) 100 LGERA 365 Hooker Corporation Pty Ltd v Hornsby Shire Council (1986) 130 LGERA 438 Lane Cove Council v Orca Partners Management (No 1) [2014] NSWLEC 162 Liberty Investments Pty Ltd v Blacktown City Council [2009] NSWLEC 7 Memel Holdings Pty Ltd v Pittwater Council [2000] NSWLEC 106; 110 LGERA 217 Minister for Aboriginal Affairs v Peko-Wallsend Ltd [1986] HCA 401; 162 CLR 24 Minister for Immigration and Citizenship v SZMDS [2010] HCA 16; 240 CLR 611 Minister for Immigration and Multicultural Affairs v Eshetu [1999] HCA 21; 197 CLR 611 Parramatta City Council v Hale (1982) 47 LGRA 319 Prasad v The Minister Administering the Environmental Planning and Assessment Act 1979 [2010] NSWLEC 193 Project Blue Sky Inc v Australian Broadcasting Authority [1998] HCA 28; 194 CLR 355 Schroders Australia Property Management Ltd v Shoalhaven City Council [2001] NSWCA 74 Selby v Pennings (1998) 19 WAR 520; 102 LGERA 253 Somerville v Dalby (1990) 69 LGRA 422 Timbarra Protection Coalition Inc v Ross Mining NL [1999] NSWCA 8; 46 NSWLR 55 Wehbe v Pittwater Council [2007] NSWLEC 827; 156 LGERA 446 Winten Property Group Ltd v North Sydney Council [2001] NSWLEC 46; 130 LGERA 79 Woolworths Ltd v Pallas Newco Pty Ltd [2004] NSWCA 422; 61 NSWLR 707 Zhang v Canterbury City Council [2001] NSWCA 167; 51 NSWLR 589 Texts Cited: M Aronson, The Resurgence of Jurisdictional Facts (2001) 12 Public Law Rev 17 Category: Principal judgment Parties: Lane Cove Council (Applicant) Orca Partners Management Pty Ltd ACN 096 175 567 (First Respondent) Sydney East Region Joint Planning Panel (Second Respondent) Michael Keith Van Twest (Third Respondent) Peter John Baum (Fourth Respondent) Xiao Man Wang (Fifth Respondent) Ngai Wong (Sixth Respondent) Quingsheng Zhou (Seventh Respondent) Yueming Li (Eighth Respondent) Joseph Stanley (Ninth Respondent) Pamela Joan Stanley (Tenth Respondent) Michael Peter Hone (Eleventh Respondent) Una Isabel McCathie (Twelfth Respondent) John De Vere Tyrrell (Thirteenth Respondent) Ursula Regina Lydia Mooser (Fourteenth Respondent) Heinrich Walter Mooser (Fifteenth Respondent) Alice Lai Ping So (Sixteenth Respondent) Jim Spanos (Seventeenth Respondent) Toula Spanos (Eighteenth Respondent) Christine Carberry (Nineteenth Respondent) Heidi Sung Man Wong (Twentieth Respondent) John Martin McNamara (Twenty First Respondent) Judith Anne McNamara (Twenty Second Respondent) Rosena May Sampson (Twenty Third Respondent) Andrew De Vere Tyrell (Twenty Fourth Respondent) David John Haugh (Twenty Fifth Respondent) Rosanne Haugh (Twenty Sixth Respondent) John William Davis (Twenty Seventh Respondent) Janice Mary Davis (Twenty Eighth Respondent) Yifang Australia Pty Ltd ACN 164 674 828 (Twenty Ninth Respondent) Orca Partners Pty Ltd ACN 118 154 751 (Thirtieth Respondent) Representation: Counsel: