Oliver v Moyne SC

COURT OR TRIBUNAL

Victorian Civil and Administrative Tribunal

DATE FILED (OR FIRST HEARING DATE)

27/01/2022

LITIGATION TYPE

Project Approval - Mitigation

SUBJECT MATTER

Wind farm

REVIEW TYPE

Merits review

SUMMARY

Section 77 of the Planning and Environment Act 1987; Moyne Planning Scheme; Farming Zone; Significant Landscape Overlay; domestic wind turbine; landscape and visual impacts; amenity impacts from visual effects, noise and shadow flicker and precedent       

CASE DOCUMENTS

Oliver v Moyne SC [2022] VCAT 397

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