Development and Planning Law in New South Wales

Author: John Whitehouse
Publisher: CCH Australia
ISBN: 9781921701559
Published In: September 2012
Format: Paperback
Jurisdiction: Australia ? Disclaimer:
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Development and Planning Law in New South Wales is a comprehensive text dealing with the law on planning and development assessment in NSW. It provides an in-depth analysis of the operations of the EPA Act, with particular emphasis on environmental planning instruments, the processing of development applications and development consents, as well as environmental impact assessment and existing uses.

Development and Planning Law in New South Wales will prove of invaluable assistance to legal practitioners in the planning and development area, as well as planners, local government officers, students and professionals in the
development industry.

Features:

Includes a detailed explanation of all key provisions and analysis of key cases
Provides a wealth of background information on the development of planning law in NSW since 1945, and a critical assessment of the current state of planning law
Provides an outline and analysis at a level of detail capable of meeting both introductory and specialist needs

Background to planning law
Environmental planning instruments – scope,
power, validity and inconsistency
The process of making Local Environmental Plans - pre 2008 provisions, standard instrument, directions and current provisions
Interpreting a Local Environmental Plan - format, zoning, characterisation, judicial review of permissibility, objectives and special provisions
State Environmental Planning Policies
Development standards and State Environmental Planning Policy No. 1
Development applications – nature, lodgment, types of development applications, public exhibition, consideration and determination
Development consents – nature, conditions, contributions, validity, lapsing and modification
State significant development and state significant infrastructure
Existing uses
Inquiries
Environmental Impact Assessment

John Whitehouse is a leading planning and environmental lawyer. He is a solicitor and partner at Minter Ellison Lawyers and a Fellow in Environmental Studies in the Graduate School of the Environment at Macquarie University. John is also the co-author of the New South Wales Environmental Planning and Assessment Act 1979 (EPA Act), the Land & Environment Court Act 1979 and the Heritage Act 1977.