HPC Urban Design & Planning Pty Ltd & Anor v Ipswich City Council & Ors

COURT OR TRIBUNAL

Queensland Planning and Environment Court

DATE FILED (OR FIRST HEARING DATE)

25/03/2019

LITIGATION TYPE

Project Approval - Mitigation

SUBJECT MATTER

Other

REVIEW TYPE

N/A

SUMMARY

(Excerpt from catchwords) PLANNING AND ENVIRONMENT – APPEAL – where existing use of land for the disposal of non-putrescible waste in a former mining void – where appeal against refusal of a development application seeking approval to materially increase the scale and intensity of the existing use – whether proposed increase in scale and intensity will compromise the rehabilitation and future use of the land – whether the increase in scale and intensity will have an unacceptable visual amenity impact – whether the increase in scale and intensity complies with the respondent’s planning scheme – whether there is a planning, community and economic need for the proposed increase in scale and intensity – weight to be given to Temporary Local Planning Instrument No. 1 of 2018 (Waste Activity Regulation) – whether the development application should be approved or refused in the exercise of the planning discretion.

CASE DOCUMENTS

HPC Urban Design & Planning Pty Ltd & Anor v Ipswich City Council & Ors [2019] QPEC 56