LOCAL GOVERNMENT LAW

  1. [5 marks] Consider Bushfire Survivors for Climate Action Inc v Environmental Protection Authority [2021] NSWLEC 92

 

Outline the:

  1. Relevant facts
  2. Issue(s)
  3. Relevant Finding(s)
  4. Decision
  5. Relevance to planning law in NSW.

 

  1. [5 marks] Consider Peabody Pastoral Holdings Pty Ltd v Mid-Western Regional Council [2013] NSWLEC 86

Outline the:

  1. Relevant facts
  2. Issue(s)
  3. Decision
  4. Relevance to planning law in NSW

 

  1. [5 marks] Consider Queanbeyan City Council v ACTEW Corporation Ltd [2011] HCA 40

Outline the:

  1. Relevant facts
  2. Issue(s)
  3. Decision
  4. What the numerous interventions indicate.

 

  1. 4. [10 marks] The Hickman Principle
  2. With regard to the Hickman Principle or Hickman Approach (Hickman):
  • What is the common law origin of this?
  • What are the key elements?

[5 marks]

  1. b) What relevance does Hickman have to local government and planning law in Australia?

Identify as examples at least two statutory references

[5 marks]

 

  1. [15 marks] Consider:
  • Alison Ziller, The New South Wales Joint Expert Report Policy – reflections of an SIA practitioner (2016) 21 LGLJ 149
  • ABC Radio National, Law Report, Hot tubbing, 5 May 2009,

http://www.abc.net.au/radionational/programs/lawreport/hot-tubbing/3137260#transcript

 

  1. Outline what is a ‘doorstop SIA’

Students need to identify:

  • The statutory basis for ‘SIA’
  • The reason for the use of ‘doorstop’

[1.5 marks]

  1. What is a ‘JERP’

[1.5 marks]

  1. What is ‘hot tubbing’

[2.0 marks]

  1. d) Critically evaluate the use of JERPS and hot tubbing in assisting the NSWLEC to resolve planning disputes

Students need to identify:

  • how and when in the legal process the above procedures come into play
  • the advantages and disadvantages of these procedures

[10 marks]