JY Crown Pty Ltd v Inner West Council

[2018] NSWLEC 1171

Land and Environment Court

New South Wales

Medium Neutral Citation:	JY Crown Pty Ltd v Inner West Council [2018] NSWLEC 1171
Hearing dates:	Conciliation conference on 15 and 28 March 2018
Date of orders:	04 April 2018
Decision date:	04 April 2018
Jurisdiction:	Class 1
Before:	Chilcott C
Decision:	See (4) below
Catchwords:	DEVELOPMENT APPLICATION: conciliation conference; agreement between the parties; orders
Legislation Cited:	Land and Environment Court Act 1979
Category:	Principal judgment
Parties:	JY Crown Pty Ltd (ACN 143 507 466) (Applicant) Inner West Council (Respondent)
Representation:	Solicitors: Mr Anthony Boskovitz, Boskovitz & Associates (Applicant) Mr Mark Bonanno, Inner West Council (Respondent)
File Number(s):	2018/18506
Publication restriction:	No

Judgment

1. COMMISSIONER: In this matter, at or after a conciliation conference, an agreement under s 34(3) of the Land and Environment Court Act 1979 (the Court Act) was reached between the parties as to the terms of a decision in the proceedings that was acceptable to the parties. As the presiding Commissioner, I was satisfied that the decision was one that the Court could have made in the proper exercise of its functions (this being the test applied by s 34(3) of the Court Act). As a consequence, s 34(3)(a) of the Act required me to “dispose of the proceedings in accordance with the decision”.

2. The Court Act also required me to “set out in writing the terms of the decision” (s 34(3)(b)). The orders made to give effect to the agreement constitute that document.

3. In making the orders to give effect to the agreement between the parties, I was not required to make, and have not made, any merit assessment of the issues that were originally in dispute between the parties.

4. The final orders to give effect to the parties’ agreement under s34(3) of the Land and Environment Court Act 1979 are:

1. The Applicant is granted leave to amend the development application and rely upon the plans referred to in Condition 1 of ‘Annexure A’ to this agreement.

2. The appeal is upheld.

3. Development Application D/2017/477 for demolition of existing structure, construction of Residential flat building containing 24 dwellings, basement parking and associated works is approved subject to the conditions set out in ‘Annexure A’ to this agreement.

……………………….

Michael Chilcott

Commissioner of the Court

Annexure A (305 KB, pdf)

Decision last updated: 06 April 2018