Source: www.bartier.com.au With a legislative history spanning just under two years, the decision of the NSW Court of Appeal in Olde English Tiles Pty Ltd v Transport for New South Wales has divided both the public and legal practitioners. So it comes as no surprise that the Applicant applied for special leave to the High Court of Australia. Interested parties have been eagerly waiting to see the High Court’s decision. The power of five words - “special is refused...

Source: Linkedin The Framework includes a suite of guidelines and tools that will support the Electricity Infrastructure Roadmap and emissions reduction targets. It includes five new and updated guidelines: * Wind Energy Guidelines – provides advice on planning considerations relevant to wind energy development, including visual impacts, site selection and decommissioning. * Transmission Guidelines – addresses route selection, community consultation expectations and visual imp...

Minsol Group team members, David Lambert and Ben Whitfield attended the Landholder Engagement Training hosted in Brisbane by The Energy Charter which included hearing from those impacted on the ground: farmers, landholders and communities. The 60+ participants included transmission, renewable developers, Ombudsman and government representatives from around Australia.   Topics covered The social licence context Setting the scene: Renewable energy development ...

Source: CoreLogic After more than two years of unabated increases in the price to build a new home or renovate, the pressure on construction costs has come off the boil, despite lingering volatility among individual material types. CoreLogic’s Cordell Construction Cost Index (CCCI), which tracks the cost to build a typical new home, returned a quarterly growth rate of 0.7% for the June quarter, the lowest rate since September 2020 and well below the 1.2% decade average. The quar...

Source:  Queensland Country Life Queensland landholders impacted by Inland Rail are at a major disadvantage compared to their interstate counterparts, according to a lawyer advising landholders along the proposed route. Adair Donaldson, Donaldson Law, Toowoomba, said while there was ongoing debate about the final route of the controversial project, what was not in dispute was that whatever route was chosen, landholders would be sacrificing their land and livelihoods for the benefit of ...