Fetterplace v. Mornington Peninsula Shire Council País/Territorio Australia Fecha Sep 1, 2010 Fuente UNEP, InforMEA Nombre del tribunal Civil and Administrative Tribunal Sede de la corte Victoria Número de referencia VCAT 1549 Resumen Mr. Fetterplace appealed the shire council’s denial of building permission, which the council had justified on various grounds, including the risk of climate change-driven coastal flooding. The Tribunal considered the coastal vulnerability assessment submitted by an expert and emphasized, before rejecting the council’s arguments and ordering it to grant building permission, the importance of assessing future flood risk as opposed to merely extrapolating past flooding patterns into the future.Key environmental legal questions:Permission to build in area at risk from coastal flooding Texto completo Fetterplace-v-Mornington-Peninsula-1.pdf Página web climatecasechart.com