The majority held that the Compaction Application Tips principles requiring a planning authority to determine the essential nature of a proposed development apply to land division applications, not only change-of-use applications. A single application for land division may be classified as comprising two discrete developments where the parcels are geographically separate, separately owned, and not linked in a planning sense. Blue J's dissent provides a detailed contrary analysis arguing that land division is conceptually distinct from change of use and that the Real Property Act's definition of a plan of division should govern the characterisation of the development.
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