Development applications in Cessnock City Council
We have no rezoning amendments on record for this council yet, but we track its development applications. The figures below are counted directly from the development application register over the last 12 months.
Development applications · last 12 months
Applications lodged in this council in the trailing 12 months, by current status. Counted directly from the development application register.
- Total lodged
- 969
- last 12 months
- Lodged
- 0
- Under assessment
- 127
- Determined
- 809
- Withdrawn
- 33
Decision speed
How quickly this council determines a development application, measured from lodgement to determination across every decided application that carries both dates.
- Median time to decision
- 35 days
- half are decided faster than this
- Average
- 52 days
- a few slow cases pull this up
- Based on
- 2,029
- determined applications
Planning disputes
20 on recordPlanning and environment court and tribunal matters naming Cessnock City Council, newest first. Each links to the full public judgment.
| Matter | Court | Decided |
|---|---|---|
| Cessnock City Council v Laila Investments Pty Ltd [2012] NSWLEC 206 CIVIL ENFORCEMENT - declaration of invalidity of occupation certificate made - failure of private certifier to comply with mandatory provision in Environmental Planning and Assessment Act 1979 | NSWLEC | 21 Aug 2012 |
| Cessnock City Council -v- Aviation and Leisure Corporation Pty Ltd [2012] NSWSC 221 CONTRACT - alternative dispute resolution clause - construction - PRACTICE AND PROCEDURE - application for permanent stay of proceedings on basis they have been instituted in breach of binding alternative dispute resolution provision - stay ordered | NSWSC | 14 Mar 2012 |
| SOCARES Support Group Inc v Cessnock City Council [2012] NSWLEC 23 JUDICIAL REVIEW - whether council decision not to tender for pound services in breach of tender obligations in Local Government Act 1993 - whether council could be satisfied of exceptions to requirement to tender contract for services - whether council satisfied of extenuating circumstances or unavailability of competitive or reliable tenders - whether mandatory relevant considerations not taken into account by council - whether irrelevant considerations taken into account by the council - groun | NSWLEC | 21 Feb 2012 |
| Cessnock City Council v Bimbadgen Estate Pty Ltd (No 2) [2011] NSWLEC 140 ENVIRONMENTAL OFFENCES: sentence - carrying out development without consent - whether works continued after stop work order - consideration of objective and subjective factors - extent of harm - whether the offence was committed intentionally - whether the offence was committed for financial gain | NSWLEC | 16 Aug 2011 |
| Cessnock City Council v Bimbadgen Estate Pty Ltd [2011] NSWLEC 136 PROCEDURE: application to adduce evidence by video link - documentary cross-examination - credit of witness in issue - evidence of witness central to proceedings - inconvenience to witness and cost to defendant not as great as suggested - application refused | NSWLEC | 9 Aug 2011 |
| Hardie Holdings Pty Ltd v Cessnock City Council [2010] NSWLEC 11 PRACTICE AND PROCEDURE :- joinder of party - statutory authority seeking joinder to Class 1 proceedings - power to order joinder under s 39A - discretion - joinder refused - whether s 64(1) confers rights of appearance on Crown as intervenor or of some lesser status - issue not determined - costs - no order as to costs | NSWLEC | 2 Feb 2010 |
| ACM Landmark Pty Limited v Cessnock City Council [2006] NSWLEC 256 Costs :- applicant successful in class 1 appeal against council's refusal of s 96 modification application for the intensification of use of a crematorium - whether fair and reasonable to make costs order in favour of applicant - all expert evidence was in support of the modification application - resident's concerns relating to air quality, health, planning and traffic impacts had no rational evidentiary basis - council acted unreasonably having regard to evidence in maintaining opposition to a | NSWLEC | 26 Apr 2006 |
| ACM Landmark Pty Limited v Cessnock City Council [2006] NSWLEC 39 Practice and Procedure :- operation of slip rule | NSWLEC | 3 Feb 2006 |
| Porters v Cessnock City Council [2005] NSWSC 1275 PROCEDURE – Supreme Court procedure – proceedings where deceased person’s estate has an interest, but is not represented – circumstances when appropriate to proceed in absence of any legal personal representative – EQUITY – equitable charges and liens – purchaser’s lien for amounts paid towards purchase price of land – when available – EQUITY – general principles and maxims of equity – equity regards as done that which ought to be done – terms contract for sale of land not completed in vendor’s | NSWSC | 6 Dec 2005 |
| Hunter Development Brokerage Pty Ltd v Cessnock City Council; Tovedale Pty Ltd v Shoalhaven City Council [2005] NSWCA 169 LAND AND ENVIRONMENT- Devlopment consents for subdivision of land - Whether consents had lapsed - Under Environmental Planning and Assessment Act, consent lapsed unless "building, engineering or construction work relating to" development was "physically commenced" upon land to which consent applied - Whether expression "building, engineering or construction work" was capable of including survey work and/or geotechnical investigation work - Whether survey work and/or geotechnical investigation wo | NSWCA | 23 May 2005 |
| Cessnock City Council v Courtney (No. 6) [2004] NSWLEC 622 Prosecution :- whether the defendant carried out development without the requisite consent under s 76A(1)(a) of the Environmental Planning and Assessment Act 1979 thereby committing an offence against s 125(1) of such Act. | NSWLEC | 12 Nov 2004 |
| Cessnock City Council v Courtney (No. 5) [2004] NSWLEC 497 Prosecution :- Further application for a Prasad direction refused | NSWLEC | 31 Aug 2004 |
| Biwazu Pty Limited v Cessnock City Council [2004] NSWLEC 411 Injunctions and Declarations :- lapse of consent - no physical commencement of work as required by s 95(4) Environmental Planning and Assessment Act 1979 | NSWLEC | 27 Aug 2004 |
| Cessnock City Council v Courtney (No. 4) [2004] NSWLEC 489 Prosecution :- applications for a no case to answer direction or a Prasad direction refused | NSWLEC | 24 Aug 2004 |
| Cessnock City Council v Courtney (No. 3) [2004] NSWLEC 488 Prosecution :- admissibility of records prepared by the defendant or prepared on the defendant's instructions | NSWLEC | 20 Aug 2004 |
| Cessnock City Council v Courtney (No. 2) [2004] NSWLEC 487 Prosecution :- statement admitted for limited purpose of corroboration not for an unfavourable inference | NSWLEC | 19 Aug 2004 |
| Cessnock City Council v Courtney [2004] NSWLEC 486 Prosecution :- prior inconsistent statement - cross examination allowed confined to limited factual issue | NSWLEC | 17 Aug 2004 |
| Cessnock City Council v Suvaal [2001] NSWCA 428 NEGLIGENCE - bicycle accident - claim against council because of potholes in road - whether loss of steering control because hit potholes or hit potholes because of loss of steering control - on facts, the former not established - claim fails. ND. | NSWCA | 5 Dec 2001 |
| Cessnock City Council V Ireland [1999] NSWLEC 253 Practice & Procedure :- Practice and Procedure:- Permanent stay of mandatory injunction granted in respect of an unlawfully erected building after planning law position has been subsequently regularised. | NSWLEC | 12 Nov 1999 |
| Cessnock City Council v Heslop & Anor [1989] NSWLEC 199 :- | NSWLEC | 1 June 1989 |
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How these numbers are computed
- Development applications are counted directly from the development application register over the trailing 12 months, grouped by their current canonical status. The full list is on the applications page.