Mangoola Coal Operations Pty Limited v Muswellbrook Shire Council

• 1. Local Government
  2. › Rates and charges
  3. › Categorisation of land for rating purposes
  4. › Dominant use
  5. › Re-categorisation from farmland to mining
  6. › Relevance of drought causing hiatus in grazing activities
  7. › Whether activity in rating years to be considered in temporal context
  8. › Local Government Act 1993 (NSW), ss 514, 515, 517
• 1. Local Government
  2. › Rates and charges
  3. › Categorisation of land for rating purposes
  4. › Dominant use
  5. › Easement burdening rateable land for benefit of adjacent mine
  6. › Whether importance of easement to mine determinative of dominant use of servient land
  7. › Local Government Act 1993 (NSW), s 517
• 1. Local Government
  2. › Rates and charges
  3. › Categorisation of land for rating purposes
  4. › Dominant use
  5. › Environmental offset areas required as condition of mine approval
  6. › Whether offset areas used 'for a coal mine'
  7. › Whether use antithetical to mining can be characterised as mining use
  8. › Local Government Act 1993 (NSW), s 517
• 1. Local Government
  2. › Rates and charges
  3. › Categorisation of land for rating purposes
  4. › Dominant use
  5. › Relevance of source of requirement to use land for particular purpose
  6. › Environmental monitoring devices and exploration activities
  7. › Whether ancillary mining activities constitute dominant use
  8. › Local Government Act 1993 (NSW), s 517

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