1. CROWN LAND, ACQUISITION DEVELOPMENT AND PLANNING
Dr Leonie Kelleher OAM

2. Overview Introduction Crown land Planning KA Cases Consents Twists
Curiosities
Conclusions

3. Introduction Principles - Sovereign - Private property
Two Consent Prongs
Crown Land
Commonwealth/State
Reserved
Planning
Zones
Overlay

4. Crown Sovereign Commonwealth/ State Legislation Consent Revocation
Elaborate
Crown Land (Reserves) Act
Coastal Management Act
Mining legislation
Reserved - purpose
Consent
Use and development approval
Committee of Management/ Minister
Leases, licences, agreements
Policy
eg Victorian Coastal Strategy
Revocation
Eg Metro Tunnel

5. Planning Zones Overlay Public Parks and Recreation (PPRZ)
Public Use (PUZ)
7 categories eg Education, Transport
Public Conservation and Resources (PCRZ)
Road Zone (RDZ)
Overlay
Public Acquisition (PAO)

6. Zones Overview Purpose Key concepts Consents
Public recreation/open space PPRZ
Conserve natural environment PCRZ
Public utility & community services PUZ
Significant roads RDZ
Key concepts
‘conducted by or on behalf of public land manager’
‘associated with’ the public land use
Consents
To application - Public land manager
Cf ‘comment’
Cf ‘as of right’

7. Cases ‘As of right’ Technicalities
Constructing authority NOT ‘public land manager’
‘care and management’
Technicalities
Fraught
Café ‘endorsed’
NOT ‘by or on behalf’ of
No ‘care and management’ by café
‘Endorsement’ cf ‘by or on behalf’

8. PAO Rules Effect on purpose Schedule Purpose
Acquiring Authority exempt
‘spoil or wasted’
Authority or council
consult
consistent with purpose
Effect on purpose
Strategic justification
Certainty
Land reasonably necessary

9. Cases Principles Purpose Watercourse Public need Boundary Bed & banks
Natural flow

10. Case: Planning and Reservation
‘associated’ with public use
Reservation
‘Protection of the coastline’
LCC
‘Pop up bar’
VCAT
Not ultra vires
PPRZ controls
‘associated’ - planning

11. Case: Planning and Reservation
Coastal
Zone
VCAT
‘Frozen’: Blight
Exempted standard process

12. Case: Reservation and Other Law
Coastal
Government road
Access
Native title

13. Case: Reservation and Other Law
Liquor Act
Planning compliance mandatory
Licence condition
Overlap - Government review
Commission reluctance

14. Case: Reservation and Other Law
Forest
Government road
Access to private land
Consents

15. Other: Restriction cf Acquisition
De facto acquisition
Gain property right
NOT remove property right
Cf US
ALRC report
Eg farmers and clearing
Growth Area Conservation

16. Other: Taxation Old surveying ‘errors’ ‘add’ Capital Gains Tax?
Confirm no benefit or detriment
? Slips & slivers
? Adverse possession

17. Other: Heritage 1st Gold Commissioners Camp, Ballarat Location
Urquhart
Lake Wendouree
Found!

18. Conclusion Crown land is tricky Extra consents
Planning and other legislation
Watercourses
Reservation Purpose
Get gazettal
Fascinating conundrums