Insights

A busy month for the Tribunal in March with 79 reported decisions in the Planning and Environment List including the Red Dot decision of Box v Stonnington CC (Red Dot) [2023] VCAT 289 which details reasons why an objector cannot simply lodge a Statement of Grounds to become a party to another objector’s application for review. While the decision has a straightforward logic to it, it is also somewhat of a ‘popcorn decision’ with respect to some of the arguments advanced.

There were 58 reported decisions of the Tribunal in the Planning and Environment List in February. Three decisions of interest were:

January 2023 saw a modest 40 reported decisions of the Tribunal in the Planning and Environment owing to the Christmas holiday period. Three decisions were of interest being:

To end 2022 there were 61 reported decisions of the Tribunal in the Planning and Environment List in December including the first one under the ‘new’ Merri-bek Planning Scheme (Pace of 3057 Pty Ltd v Merri-bek CC [2022] VCAT 1393).

November saw a steady 63 reported decisions in the Planning and Environment List of the Tribunal with the following three decision being of particular interest: