Category: Local Government Planning & Environment Law

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Lodging Amended Plans on the NSW Planning Portal
POSTED: 24 Sep 2021
Local Government Planning & Environment Law
There have been a number of unforseen consequences as a result of comments made in June of this year by Chief Justice Preston in the Court of Appeal matter of AQC Dartbrook Management,including changing the way development applications and modification applications the subject of appeals in the Land and Environment...
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Taking into Consideration the Draft NSW Housing SEPP
POSTED: 23 Sep 2021
Local Government Planning & Environment Law
Following recent exhibition, the Draft Housing State Environmental Planning Policy (SEPP Housing) is now a draft instrument that must be taken into consideration when assessing development applications. This article explores some of the proposed amendments to provisions applying to boarding house development which are scheduled to come into force in...
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Travel registrations required from Saturday, 28 August 2021
POSTED: 27 Aug 2021
Local Government Planning & Environment Law
From 12.01am on Saturday, 28 August 2021, new requirements to register your travel will come into force affecting different types of movement across New South Wales.
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Public Participation in Land and Environment Court Development Appeals during COVID
POSTED: 20 Aug 2021
Local Government Planning & Environment Law
A key feature of the Land and Environment Court and the legislation it administers is the ability of the public to participate. This is especially true in relation to appeals to the Court against the refusal of development applications and applications to modify development consents in where persons who objected...
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Construction to Reopen in Greater Sydney
POSTED: 11 Aug 2021
Local Government Planning & Environment Law
The NSW Government has advised that as at 12:01am on 11 August 2021, all construction sites within Greater Sydney will be permitted reopened as a result of amendments made to the Public Health (COVID-19 Additional Restrictions for Delta Outbreak) Order 2021 (“the Public Health Order”) overnight.
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Stannards Marine Pty Ltd v North Sydney Council [2021] NSWLEC 66
POSTED: 20 Jul 2021
Local Government Planning & Environment Law
Chief Justice Preston of the Land and Environment Court has recently clarified the operation of section 8.12 of the Environmental Planning and Assessment Act 1979 (“EP&A Act”) in the case of Stannards Marine Pty Ltd v North Sydney Council [2021] NSWLEC 66 (“Stannards”).
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Etherington v North Sydney Council [2021] NSWLEC 1324
POSTED: 20 Jul 2021
Local Government Planning & Environment Law
The Land and Environment Court has recently refused a development application for the demolition of an existing dwelling and garage and the construction of a new dwelling and double garage on the land at 58 Cowdroy Avenue, Cammeray.
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Amending a Modification Application
POSTED: 20 Jul 2021
Local Government Planning & Environment Law
In June of this year, Chief Justice Preston of the Land and Environment Court sent the planning world into a tailspin after confirming that there was no power to amend a request or an application to modify a development consent or an approval.
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Registration of Development Consents on the NSW Planning Portal
POSTED: 20 Jul 2021
Local Government Planning & Environment Law
From 1 July 2020, changes to the Environmental Planning and Assessment Regulation 2000 (EPA Regulation) required use of the NSW Planning Portal as the central platform for the making of a number of types of applications relating to a development for all but 48 local government areas across NSW.
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Employment Zones Reform
POSTED: 08 Jun 2021
Local Government Planning & Environment Law
The Department of Planning, Industry and Environment (“Department”) has announced a plan to replace the existing business and industrial zones with five new employment zones and three supporting zones in the Standard Instrument Principal Local Environmental Plan (“Standard Instrument”).
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