Ecolex Logo
Le portail au
droit de l'environnement
Résultats de la recherche » Jurisprudence

Fetterplace v. Mornington Peninsula Shire Council

Pays/Territoire
Australie
Date
Sep 1, 2010
Source
UNEP, InforMEA
Nom du tribunal
Civil and Administrative Tribunal
Siège de la cour
Victoria
Numéro de référence
VCAT 1549
Résumé
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
Texte intégral
Fetterplace-v-Mornington-Peninsula-1.pdf
Site web
climatecasechart.com