In brief - Developer unsuccessful in pursuing costs order
The case Rintoul & Ors v Brisbane City Council
[2013] QPEC 45 involved an application for costs by a developer,
Greengate Property Group, against a group of submitters, Matthew
Rintoul, Debra Venables, Jantine Boers, Christine Clift, Wayne
Clift, Vincent Crowley, Joanne Greenhill, Paul Hargreaves, Anthony
Newman, Gary Van-Ooy, Leonie Van-Ooy, Rodney Ward and Eugene
Zakrjevsky ("the submitters").
The submitters commenced a submitter appeal in the Queensland
Planning and Environment Court against the Brisbane City
Council's approval of a development application for an
integrated care-based village.
The appeal was set down for hearing in the June 2013 sittings,
but was removed from the sittings as a result of the submitters
bringing an application in pending proceeding seeking, amongst
other things, a declaration that the development approval was
invalid and of no legal effect and an order that it be
