Catholic Metropolitan Cemeteries Trust v Penrith City Council [2021] NSWLEC 1225

Catholic Metropolitan Cemeteries Trust v Penrith City Council [2021] NSWLEC 1225

The amended proposal sufficiently mitigated potential social and character impacts by reducing burial plots, locating the cemetery in the eastern portion of the site, providing a 15m vegetated buffer, retaining and managing vegetation, continuing golf use for a period, and creating publicly accessible parkland. The asserted detrimental social impacts were not supported by sufficient quantitative or qualitative evidence. The proposal was permissible with consent, satisfied the relevant planning controls, concurrence and jurisdictional requirements, was compatible with the local character of Wallacia, and was in the public interest; therefore the appeal was upheld and consent granted...

Jurisdiction
Australia
Judgment Date
11 May 2021
Procedural Posture
Class 1 Appeal Against Refusal of Development Application 17/1092 Under S 8.7(1) of the Environmental Planning and Assessment Act 1979 / Final Judgment After Hearing; Amended Development Application Determined
Outcome
Appeal upheld; Development Application 17/1092 approved subject to conditions of consent.
Legal Topics
['development Application for Cemetery With Parkland' 'social Impact Assessment' 'local Character and Zone Objectives' 'public Interest' 'integrated Development Concurrence' 'conditions of Consent']
['planning and Environment' 'development Consent' 'land Use' 'local Government'] ['development Application for Cemetery With Parkland' 'social Impact Assessment' 'local Character and Zone Objectives' 'public Interest' 'integrated Development Concurrence' 'conditions of Consent']

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Procedural Posture

Class 1 Appeal Against Refusal of Development Application 17/1092 Under S 8.7(1) of the Environmental Planning and Assessment Act 1979 / Final Judgment After Hearing; Amended Development Application Determined

Legal Issues

  1. 1 ['Whether the proposed cemetery with parkland would cause unacceptable social impacts to the village of Wallacia' 'Whether the proposed development was compatible with local character and consistent with the relevant zone objectives' 'Whether the proposed development was in the public interest' 'Whether other relevant jurisdictional requirements for development consent were satisfied']

Ratio Decidendi

The amended proposal sufficiently mitigated potential social and character impacts by reducing burial plots, locating the cemetery in the eastern portion of the site, providing a 15m vegetated buffer, retaining and managing vegetation, continuing golf use for a period, and creating publicly accessible parkland. The asserted detrimental social impacts were not supported by sufficient quantitative or qualitative evidence. The proposal was permissible with consent, satisfied the relevant planning controls, concurrence and jurisdictional requirements, was compatible with the local character of Wallacia, and was in the public interest; therefore the appeal was upheld and consent granted...

Court Disposition

Appeal upheld; Development Application 17/1092 approved subject to conditions of consent.

Orders

  • ['Leave is granted to rely on documents provided in the Notice of Motion filed on 11 March 2021, Exhibit E, and amended detailed landscape plans filed on 24 March 2021, amending Exhibit A.' 'The Applicant is to pay the costs of the Respondent thrown away as a result of the amendments of the application for...