Robert Wilcher, Partner and Emma Fleming, Solicitor

A number of recent changes made to NSW planning laws will affect appeal rights, planning agreements and planning approval processes from this month on.

This update helps you keep up to date with these changes.

Appeal times
Changes have significantly reduced some appeal times, and expanded others:

• DA appeals - the time for an applicant to appeal a development application under s. 97 of the Environmental Planning and Assessment Act 1979 (EP&A Act) has been reduced to 6 months from 12;
• S.96 appeals - the appeal time has been increased to 6 months (up from the previous 60 days under the Land and Environment Court Rules).