Appeals and Applications

Adamson Town Planning has been engaged in a number of appeals lodged with the Planning and Environment Court, Land Court, Supreme Court and Queensland Development Tribunal.

These matters vary being primarily associated with development proposals for a variety of land use types, claims for compensation or injurious affection caused by planning scheme amendments or land resumptions, applications seeking to remedy non-compliance issues for existing or new development and claims for damages as a result negligence and breach of statutory duty. 

Some of the Court matters Adamson Town Planning has been involved with that have been heard include:

• Noosa Chamber of Commerce and Industry and Ors v. Noosa Shire Council and Ors and Tetrex Pty Ltd v. Noosa Shire Council and Ors [2004] QPEC 016
• Hanson Construction Materials Pty Ltd v Gold Coast City Council [2009] QPEC 107
• Young v Maroochy Shire Council & Ors [2011]QPEC 093 
• FKP Residential Developments Pty Ltd v Sunshine Coast Regional Council & Ors [2009] (BD1317 of 2009)
• Smalley v Whitsunday Regional Council [2011] QPEC 105 (164 of 2010)
• Szylkarski & Ors v Brisbane City Council & Anor (2012) QPEC 80
• Liston v Tablelands Regional Council & Anor; Pensini v Tablelands Regional Council & Anor [2013] QPEC 076 Everson DCJ 29/11/2013
• Hydrox Nominees Pty Ltd v Noosa Shire Council [2014] QPEC 018 Rackemann DCJ 30/04/2014
• Wason v Gympie Regional Council [2017] QPEC 034 (16/4349) Everson DCJ 2 June 2017
• Harvest Investment CO (No 2) Pty Ltd (ACN 612 180 766 v Sunshine Coast Regional Council & Ors
• Como Glasshouse Pty Ltd (ACN 124616 459) v Noosa Council
• Development Watch Inc & Anor v Sunshine Coast Regional Council & Anor [2018] QPEC 6
• Appeal No. D129 of 2016 – Bennington & Ors v Sunshine Coast Regional Council & Surfing World Sunshine Coast Pty Ltd
• Appeal 2230 of 2017 – The Body Corporate for Lindor Community Titles Scheme 29204 and Planit Consulting Pty Ltd CAN 099 267 711 v Gold Coast City Council & Ors
• Appeal No. 4 of 2018 – Mary Valley Community Group Inc. and Peak Events Pty Ltd T/A Garapine v Gympie Regional Council & Corbet Quarries Pty Ltd & the Chief Executive, Department of State Development, Manufacturing, Infrastructure and Planning
• Appeal No. 059 of 2017 – Peter Sydney James Trowbridge and Craig Clifford Strudwick v Noosa Council & Ors
• Appeal No. 123 of 2017 – Kennlyn Developments Pty Ltd v Noosa Shire Council
• Sunshine Coast Regional Council v D Agostini Property Pty Ltd & Ors Application 09 of 2019

Development Applications

Adamson Town Planning has undertaken a number of projects including preparation, lodgement, management and assessment of development applications for:

• retail and commercial developments for shopping centres and commercial office buildings
• residential developments such as multiple dwellings including low, medium and high rise, “Eco-Resorts” and 5-Star “Boutique Hotels”
• residential, commercial and industrial subdivisions of varying scales from 2 allotments to 250 allotments
• industrial developments of varying scales and use types
• community uses including schools, child care centres and churches
• extractive industries for large and small scale quarries

Local Government

Adamson Town Planning has assisted local government in the following ways:

• preparation of master planning documents including public consultation
• preparation, lodgement and management of development applications for local government projects
• assessment of large scale and often controversial development applications such as quarries having extraction rates of up to 1M tones per annum
• consultancy contracts for the general assessment of development applications
• strategic policy review of planning scheme policies for areas affected by flooding and contributions in lieu of the provision of carparking
• general review of new planning schemes from a practical town planning and development assessment perspective
• assistance with remedying non-compliance matters for existing developments that do not have development approval or are not complying with a development approval or the planning scheme