Victorian Planning Bulletin - Summer 2008

The Victorian Planning Bulletin is designed to keep you up to date on legal developments, trends and legislative changes affecting the Victorian planning sector.

In this issue:

• Planning decisions and the precautionary principle
• Constraints on call-ins: Minister’s decision to fast-track Hilton Hotel deemed invalid
• An argument for accrued rights to demolish is demolished
• Buyers beware: High Court confines the application of the Pointe Gourde principle
• New exemptions from permit requirements for native vegetation removal