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You may not be aware that allegations can be raised about what you are doing or have done which has impacted the environment.
Ignorance of legislation and the requirement to obtain licences, approvals and permits, or to avoid carrying out certain activities, does not offer a defence. However, testing the allegations and critically assessing their foundation, can lead to a successful defence.To understand how the allegations arise and how they should be dealt with involves understanding many inter-related issues. We are familiar with these issues and can assist you in achieving a favourable outcome.
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We recently negotiated a spectacular result in a compensation case against the RTA where farm land was being taken for the realignment of th...
We recently negotiated a spectacular result in a compensation case against the RTA where farm land was being taken for the realignment of the Pacific Highway near Bangalow in northern NSW. The new alignment of the highway runs very close to our client's home and would cause major noise problems, which could not realistically be solved by treating the house (asbestos materials complicated this even further).
The RTA's noise assessment was inadequate and misleading. Their noise control solutions were unacceptable: close the windows and run an airconditioner (this is a farmhouse on a rural property, accustomed to natural ventilation, fresh air and enjoyment of the outdoors).
Acoustic experts were engaged and preparations made for a serious fight in court to prove that the existing house would be made unliveable by the noise from the new highway, but lateral thinking found a better solution.
A beautiful old timber house on an adjoining farm had been acquired by the RTA and was slated for demolition to make way for a new cutting, despite having heritage significance. It was too big to move along the highway, but a deal was done to move that house across the paddocks onto our client's place and, with the assistance of a bulldozer, drag it up a steep hill to a new location well removed from the new highway. I'll try to post some photos of the move as soon as I work out how to do that.
All around, a great result. A heritage building was saved from demolition and reused as a farmhouse in its local context, our clients are ecstatic with the character and location of their "new" home, the RTA saved a lot of money compared with the cost of building a new house and we managed to keep our clients out of a stressful court battle about highly technical noise issues.
Subsequently, the RTA accepted that their initial noise assessment was wrong and commissioned a new study, which will be of assistance to other affected landowners in the area.

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As part of a Red Cross and YMCA initiative I am going to be donating blood today and voting for Forster YMCA as the gym ...
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