Introduction A recent decision of the Western Australian State Administrative Tribunal considered the question of whether structure plans could injuriously affect land and thereby give rise to compensation entitlements on the part of landowners. However the decision...

The Western Australian Supreme Court has upheld the validity of conditions imposed on planning consents and extractive industry licences, under which an extractive industry proponent was required to pay a contribution calculated on the value of material extracted. In...

Western Australia’s planning laws do not recognise any right of an objector to a proposed development to institute review proceedings to challenge development approvals in the State Administrative Tribunal (SAT).  In the SAT, only an aggrieved applicant can seek...