Valore Cellars v Fairfield City Council [2007] NSWLEC 221

Valore Cellars v Fairfield City Council [2007] NSWLEC 221

Development consent was refused because the applicant had not discharged the onus of showing why the heritage item should be demolished. The Court accepted that Kaluna Cellars had Local heritage significance, that the older brick construction graded High should be retained subject to further adaptive reuse assessment, and that the significance of other parts and the potential for adaptive reuse had not been adequately investigated. Without evidence addressing whether adaptive reuse was feasible or unduly burdensome, the obligations under cl 30(2)(c) of Fairfield Local Environmental Plan 1994 could not be properly discharged.

Jurisdiction
Australia
Judgment Date
24 April 2007
Procedural Posture
Development Application Appeal / Appeal Against Refusal of Development Application 1472/2005
Outcome
Appeal dismissed; development application refused.
Legal Topics
['demolition of Heritage Item' 'torrens Title Subdivision' 'heritage Significance' 'adaptive Reuse' 'development Consent']
['environmental Planning and Development' 'heritage Conservation' 'local Government Planning'] ['demolition of Heritage Item' 'torrens Title Subdivision' 'heritage Significance' 'adaptive Reuse' 'development Consent']

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Procedural Posture

Development Application Appeal / Appeal Against Refusal of Development Application 1472/2005

Legal Issues

  1. 1 ['Whether Development Application 1472/2005 for demolition of all existing structures and Torrens title subdivision of 10 Kaluna Avenue, Smithfield into 4 lots should be approved.' 'Whether Kaluna Cellars should be demolished having regard to its heritage significance and the absence of consideration of adaptive reuse.' 'Whether the applicant had adequately addressed the matters required by cl 30(2) of Fairfield Local Environmental Plan 1994.']

Ratio Decidendi

Development consent was refused because the applicant had not discharged the onus of showing why the heritage item should be demolished. The Court accepted that Kaluna Cellars had Local heritage significance, that the older brick construction graded High should be retained subject to further adaptive reuse assessment, and that the significance of other parts and the potential for adaptive reuse had not been adequately investigated. Without evidence addressing whether adaptive reuse was feasible or unduly burdensome, the obligations under cl 30(2)(c) of Fairfield Local Environmental Plan 1994 could not be properly discharged.

Court Disposition

Appeal dismissed; development application refused.

Orders

  • ['The appeal is dismissed.' 'Development Application 1472/2005 for the demolition of all existing structures and the Torrens title subdivision of 10 Kaluna Avenue, Smithfield into 4 lots is refused.' 'The exhibits are returned with the exception of exhibits 1 and 2.']