Legal updates for councils, planning, compliance, and governance in NSW.
As the number of renters continues to rise in New South Wales, the NSW Government is pushing through changes to the residential tenancy laws aimed to strengthen the rights of tenants, and encourage long term...
Over the last few years, the NSW Government has introduced major reforms to the NSW planning system, which included an overhaul of the Environmental Planning and Assessment Act 1979 (NSW). In December 2018, the Kaldas...
It is not difficult to see the benefit of the independent contractor relationship for both businesses and contractors. The contractor has the flexibility and control to charge an agreed price to complete a specific task...
Please don’t. Trees and fences generally have a way of turning neighbours against one another. So much so, in fact, that the NSW Government enacted specific laws to deal with both: the Trees (Disputes Between...
The Government Information (Public Access) Act 2009 (GIPA Act) contains the relevant provisions which entitle members of the public to have access to documents which are not protected by legal privilege or other privacy-related exclusions....
There is an important difference between an approval and a consent, insofar as land use is concerned. Both the Local Government Act 1993 (LG Act) and the Environmental Planning and Assessment Act 1979 (EPA Act)...
Councils need to invite tenders for certain contracts, in certain circumstances, but are not required to tender for each and every contract they enter into. Section 55 of the Local Government Act 1993 (LG Act)...
In the hierarchy of planning law the Environmental Planning and Assessment Act 1979 (EPA Act) and associated Regulation sits at the top. The Act establishes the system of planning and environmental assessment for the state...
