Moradi-Bossari v Mornington Peninsula SC

COURT OR TRIBUNAL

Victorian Civil and Administrative Tribunal

DATE FILED (OR FIRST HEARING DATE)

01/09/2023

LITIGATION TYPE

Project Approval - Adaptation

SUBJECT MATTER

Flood risk

REVIEW TYPE

Merits review

SUMMARY

Catchwords: Section 79 of the Planning and Environment Act 1987 (Vic); Mornington Peninsula Planning Scheme; Five double storey dwellings; General Residential Zone GRZ1; Environmental Significance Overlay ESO17 ‘Streamlines’; Design and Development Overlay DDO1; Vegetation Protection Overlay VPO1; Adequacy of information; Response to neighbourhood character; Flood risk and mitigation; Site layout.

This case concerns a planning permit application for five dwellings on the subject land, as well as vegetation removal and earthworks [1]. There is substantial discussion of flood risk and mitigation in light of climate change.

CASE DOCUMENTS

Moradi-Bossari v Mornington Peninsula SC [2024] VCAT 215