I.B. Town Planning v Sunshine Coast Regional Council

COURT OR TRIBUNAL

Queensland Planning and Environment Court

DATE FILED (OR FIRST HEARING DATE)

07/09/2020

LITIGATION TYPE

Project Approval - Adaptation

SUBJECT MATTER

Flood risk

REVIEW TYPE

Merits Review

SUMMARY

PLANNING AND ENVIRONMENT – APPEAL – where appeal against decision to refuse a development application to start a new use of land for the purposes of a Hotel – where extant development approval for a restaurant – where development reuses existing built form – whether the new use is appropriate and complies with the respondent’s planning scheme – whether the development application should be refused for flood safety reasons – whether there is a town planning and community need for the development – whether the development application should be approved or refused in the exercise of the planning discretion.

CASE DOCUMENTS

I.B. Town Planning v Sunshine Coast Regional Council [2021] QPEC 36