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:

There were 62 reported decisions of the Tribunal last month in the Planning and Environment List a number of which were of interest including: Xin

A relatively ‘quiet’ month for the Tribunal with 61 reported decisions in the Planning and Environment List.

Wastewater treatment facilities provide critical community infrastructure, but like many other industrial and infrastructure uses, have the potential to cause adverse amenity impacts if located near sensitive uses, such as dwellings, aged care facilities, child care centres and schools.

August was a busy month for the Tribunal with 85 reported decisions in the Planning and Environment List. Major promotional signs seemed to be the flavour of the month with several decisions relating to such applications in both metropolitan and rural settings. Two decisions of interest arising last month were:

There were 67 reported decisions of the Tribunal in the Planning and Environment List last month with there appearing to be a larger than usual number of matters involving questions of law or ‘rural’ applications. Three decisions of interest arising last month were: