Vukadinovic v Mount Alexander SC

COURT OR TRIBUNAL

Victorian Civil and Administrative Tribunal

DATE FILED (OR FIRST HEARING DATE)

23/03/2014

LITIGATION TYPE

Project Approval - Mitigation

SUBJECT MATTER

Other

REVIEW TYPE

Merits review

SUMMARY

The case concerned proposals for broiler farms (a broiler is a barnyard fowl raised for meat). An objector argued that the proposed broiler farms would contribute to the discharge of greenhouse gases and adverse effects on the environment. The Tribunal acknowledged that “Climate change, its effects and policy requirements, are not limited to this area or Victoria. They are national and global questions. They call for national and global responses and policies. They cannot be effectively dealt with on a case by case ad hoc basis, or by refusing individual planning permit applications for broiler farms or other relevant uses and developments.” The Tribunal, however, was charged with making decisions on planning permit applications on their planning merits. In this case, this did not extend to refusing otherwise acceptable broiler farm proposals on the basis argued for by the objector.

CASE DOCUMENTS

Vukadinovic v Mount Alexander SC (No. 6) (Correction) [2015] VCAT 1993