Britza v Shire of Gingin

COURT OR TRIBUNAL

State Administrative Tribunal of Western Australia

DATE FILED (OR FIRST HEARING DATE)

20/12/2020

LITIGATION TYPE

Project Approval - Adaptation

SUBJECT MATTER

Water

REVIEW TYPE

Merits review

SUMMARY

TOWN PLANNING — Town planning — Development — Review of conditions of approval — Time limited approval — Beyond power — Operational inconsistency — Refusal in disguise — Whether avocado orchard capable of approval — Water abstraction from unproclaimed watercourse — Whether minimum discharge flow of 2 ML/day leaving site is sufficient to protect downstream environment of watercourse — Effects of climate change — Implementation of operating strategy — Notification on title — Whether conditions have planning purpose — Nexus — Reasonableness — Words and phrases: ‘Sensibly diminished’ — ‘Environmental flow’

CASE DOCUMENTS

Britza v Shire of Gingin [2022] WASAT 58