Boyce v Council of the City of Sydney

Land and Environment Court New South Wales Medium Neutral Citation: Boyce v Council of the City of Sydney [2016] NSWLEC 1102 Hearing dates:Conciliation conference on 21 March 2016Date of orders: 22 March 2016 Decision date: 22 March 2016 Jurisdiction:Class 1Before: Pearson C Decision: See (4) below Catchwords: DEVELOPMENT MODIFICATION: adaptive reuse of existing commercial building and residential infill development; conditions of consent; conciliation conference; agreement between the parties; orders Legislation Cited: Land and Environment Court Act 1979 Category:Principal judgmentParties: Greg Boyce (Applicant) Council of the City of Sydney (Respondent) Representation: Counsel: Mr M Staunton (Applicant) Dr S Berveling (Respondent) Solicitors: Mr A Singh, Council of the City of Sydney (Respondent) File Number(s):11069 of 2015 Publication restriction:NoJudgment COMMISSIONER: In this matter, at or after a conciliation conference, an agreement under s 34(3) of the Land and Environment Court Act 1979 (the Court Act) was reached between the parties as to the terms of a decision in the proceedings that was acceptable to the parties. As the presiding Commissioner, I was satisfied that the decision was one that the Court could have made in the proper exercise of its functions (this being the test applied by s 34(3) of the Court Act). As a consequence, s 34(3)(a) of the Act required me to “dispose of the proceedings in accordance with the decision”. The Court Act also required me to “set out in writing the terms of the decision” (s 34(3)(b)). The orders made to give effect to the agreement constitute that document....