Council lodges appeal

• Published date: 18 April 2024
• Publication title: Mountain Scene

Last month, Mountain Scene revealed the court, in a precedent-setting decision, found in favour of Grant, Lynda and Phil Hensman, represented by Todd & Walker Law’s Graeme Todd and Ben Gresson, who applied for an enforcement order after the council refused to sign off a three-lot subdivision at Perkins Rd/Angelo Dr, despite the developers believing they’d complied with the subdivision consent conditions

The court found the Hensmans completed the required works, including ‘‘in all reasonable aspects’’, of what could be described as a catch-all engineering condition that was seemingly relied on by council in refusing to issue the certificate, instead asking them to do more work.

However, media man Sam White confirms the council’s appealed the decision to the High Court.

That’s on the basis of errors of law.

They include, according to the...