It has become common for local governments when giving planning approvals to impose a condition requiring the owner to consent to the lodgement on the title or titles on the subject land of a notification under section 70A of the Transfer of Land Act 1893. The purpose...

It is not uncommon for a local government responsible for assessing an application for planning approval, to come to the view that a proposed development is badly designed, with the consequence that the proposed development will be either detrimental to the...

The impression given by the Department of Planning (DoP) when the Development Assessment Panel (DAP) system was introduced in 2010 was that DAPs would stand in the place of local governments in the development approval processes for the more significant development...