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Characterisation is the process of defining a land use (‘or development’). This is critical to determining whether that use is permitted in any particular zone.

Councils, developers and the community should welcome changes that have now been assented to in the Local Government Amendment Bill 2019 (NSW).

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).

You can, but you need to be careful in how you go about it.

If you are unhappy with the determination of council in relation to your development application, you can appeal that decision under section 97 of the Environmental Planning and Assessment Act...

Councils have broad ranging powers of access to private property under the Local Government Act 1993 (LG Act) (s 191), the Environmental Planning and Assessment Act 1979 (EPA Act)(s 119D),...

Please don’t.

Don’t panic!

I have acted both for and against many people who have cut down trees and regretted it.