Queensland Planning and Environment Court
Pelican Links cases
A series of cases in the Planning and Environment Court, Magistrates Court, District Court and Court of Appeal involving pre-emptive clearing and a planning appeal for a large residential development near Caloundra in South-East Queensland.
Springbrook groundwater case
A current appeal in the P&E Court against refusal of an application for commercial water extraction in the midst of World Heritage areas on the Springbrook plateau in SE Queensland.
Tornabene appeal
A routine and typical development application and subsequent appeal under Queensland’s planning laws.
Cassowary case
An appeal in the Planning and Environment Court under the Integrated Planning Act 1997 (Qld) concerning the impacts of a proposed rural residential subdivision on cassowary habitat.
Donnybrook Sand Mine case
An appeal in the Planning and Environment Court about a large sand mine adjacent to a Ramsar Wetland.
Frippery case
A case to restrain fruit farmers from electrocuting flying-foxes under Queensland’s nature conservation laws.
Yardley case
A case showing the importance of public interest litigation to protect the environment where government regulators fail to act and the tenacity sometimes required to succeed.
Plumb’s Chambers case
An appeal in the Planning and Environment Court against demolition of two cultural heritage listed buildings at Warwick.
“Champagne flutes” appeal
A very significant appeal for planning law in Queensland which emphasises the importance of development complying with the planning scheme.
- All
- High Court of Australia
- Federal Court of Australia
- Queensland Planning and Environment Court
- Queensland Land and Resources Tribunal
- Land Court of Queensland
- District Court of Queensland
- Magistrates Court of Queensland
- NSW Land and Environment Court
- NSW Local Court
- Victorian Supreme Court
- Victorian Civil & Administrative Tribunal
- International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea (ITLOS)
- Northern Territory
