Australia, Sept. 8 -- New South Wales Land and Environment Court issued text of the following judgement on Aug. 7: 1. This judgment involves an application by the defendants seeking security for costs. 2. The plaintiff/respondent is DRE Capital Pty Ltd (DRE Capital). It is represented by R Glasson of counsel. The first defendant/second applicant is Wixels Property Holdings Pty Ltd (Wixels). The second defendant/first applicant is Rosemarie Brenda Guerin. Both defendants are represented by A P ...
Australia, Sept. 8 -- New South Wales Land and Environment Court issued text of the following judgement on Aug. 7: 1. COMMISSIONER: This is a Class 1 Development Appeal pursuant to s 8.7 of the Environmental Planning and Assessment Act 1979 (NSW) (EPA Act) being an appeal against the refusal of Development Application DA0330/22 seeking consent for alterations and additions to the existing shed structure and for change of use to a restaurant, including construction of an associated carparking ar...
Australia, Sept. 8 -- New South Wales Land and Environment Court issued text of the following judgement on Aug. 7: 1. COMMISSIONER: Residential apartment development is proposed on a site on the western side of the Pacific Highway, close to the Roseville Railway Station, known as 26 Pacific Highway. 2. To this end, development application No. 0532/22 seeking consent for such development was lodged by the Applicant in these proceedings, Random Primer Pty Ltd, with Ku-ring-gai Council (the Counc...
Australia, Sept. 8 -- New South Wales Land and Environment Court issued text of the following judgement on Aug. 7: 1. COMMISSIONER: This is an appeal pursuant to s 8.7 of the Environmental Planning and Assessment Act 1979 (NSW) (EPA Act) against the grant of consent subject to conditions of development application D/2024/1162 (DA) by the Council of the City of Sydney (Council). 2. The DA, as amended, seeks consent for alterations and additions to a terrace dwelling, including construction of n...
Australia, Sept. 8 -- New South Wales Land and Environment Court issued text of the following judgement on Aug. 7: 1. This interlocutory judgment concerns two competing applications for discovery. 2. The plaintiff/cross-defendant in the substantive proceedings underlying this judgment is Berhero Pty Ltd t/as Acuity Funding, incorporated in Australia. Ranjit Thambyrajah (Mr Thambyrajah) is the plaintiff's managing and sole director. The plaintiff is represented by A Gander of counsel. The plain...
Australia, Sept. 8 -- New South Wales Land and Environment Court issued text of the following judgement on Aug. 7: 1. COMMISSIONER: These Class 1 proceedings arise as a result of the actual refusal, by Paramatta City Council of Development Application 837/2022. This application has been made by Rapisarda Holdings Pty Ltd as Trustee for the Rapisarda Property Trust, and seeks consent for the construction of an 11-storey mixed-use building containing ground floor retail/commercial space and 66 co...
Australia, Sept. 8 -- New South Wales Land and Environment Court issued text of the following judgement on Aug. 7: 1. COMMISSIONER: Development consent was granted to DA2022/0001 on 14 August 2023 (DA). Modification Application No. MOD2024/0022 (MA) seeks to modify the development consent and has been refused by Georges River Council (Council). 2. The development consent provides for the erection of a dwelling house, swimming pool, retaining walls and fence, and alterations and additions to st...
Australia, Sept. 8 -- New South Wales Land and Environment Court issued text of the following judgement on Aug. 7: 1. These proceedings arise out of a Deed of Put and Call Option entered into on 23 December 2021 between Sun Property and Investment Pty Limited (the plaintiff), David Elmasri and Nibal Elmasri (the defendants and cross-claimants) and Varinder Kaur and Nitka Khanna (the cross-defendants) in respect of a residential property at 393-395 Fifteenth Avenue, Austral, New South Wales, bei...
Australia, Sept. 8 -- New South Wales Land and Environment Court issued text of the following judgement on Aug. 7: 1. COMMISSIONER: This is an appeal against the Development Control Order (DCO) (Ex 1 Respondent's Bundle of Documents, pp10-11) under Div 9.3, Orders 3 and 10, of the Environmental Planning and Assessment Act 1979 (NSW) (EPA Act) dated 21 August 2024 (Ref: ON2004/0124; File no. 143991) issued by Blacktown City Council (Council) to the Applicant in relation to the premises on Lot 51...
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