Where a local environmental plan contains a paramountcy clause and two sets of building height controls address the same subject matter, an 'appearance of exhaustiveness' in the dominant provision's detailed and complex controls creates inconsistency with simpler controls in another division, even where the simpler controls address a narrower geographic subset. An appellate judge who remits proceedings has a duty to determine whether an exclusionary order is required to avoid apprehended pre-judgment bias, and cannot defer that question to the head of the tribunal below. The Court of Appeal has power to antedate a substituted remitter order nunc pro tunc to nullify intervening administrative action taken on the basis of the original order.
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