Wormell Pty Ltd v Gold Coast City Council & Anor [2021] QPEC 12
22-2-21 / John Ware — Planning & Environment
A traffic management plan allowed for the construction of a concrete pathway through a previously approved landscaped garden area. Whether the conditions of the existing landscaping plan were inconsistent with the proposed traffic management plan was in question under s 66(2) of the Planning Act 2016 (Qld). The Court considered…
Sunshine Coast Regional Council v Gavin & Anor [2020] QPEC 63
18-12-20 / Rob Anderson KC — Planning & Environment
An application for enforcement orders arising from contraventions of the Planning Act 2016 (Qld) relating to the unlawful use of a building as an ‘accommodation building’ contrary to the land’s ‘Residential A’ zoning. Rob Anderson QC (with G Barr) appeared for the applicant, instructed by Heiner an Doyle. The judgment…
Cleanaway Solid Waste Pty Ltd v Ipswich City Council & Ors [2020] QPEC 47
18-9-20 / John Ware — Planning & Environment
An appeal against Ipswich City Council’s decision to refuse a development application seeking approval to extend an existing landfill facility. For consideration was whether the amended plans substantially differed from the originals. The Court found that: the scale and intensity of the use applied for remained unchanged; key features of…
K&K (GC) Pty Ltd v Gold Coast City Council [2020] QPEC 40
13-8-20 / John Ware — Planning & Environment
The appellant applied to the respondent for a material change of use permit to develop land for a service station, convenience store, take-away food premises and a fast food drive through premises. The land was in the Detached Dwelling Domain and the Residential Choice Domain of the Gold Coast Planning…
Pembroke Olive Downs Pty Ltd v Sunland Cattle Co Pty Ltd & Ors [2020] QLC 27
31-7-20 / John Ware — Planning & Environment
An application for three coal mining leases and two mining leases for related infrastructure. Although an Environmental Authority has already been issued, there were four objectors to the mining lease applications (MLAs), all owners affected by the MLAs. Issues raised included, inter alia: Whether the MLA areas were sufficiently mineralised…
