Justice Nicola Pain

A judge has rejected green developer Kingshill’s development application for an “ecologically sustainable” 1,900 residential lot concept in Port Stephens, upholding findings that it could have significant impacts on local wildlife.

Three Sydney commercial landlords whose properties were compulsorily acquired to make way for the WestConnex project have come to the end of the road in their fight for $56.5 million in compensation, with the High Court refusing to hear their case.

A group of Sydney commercial landlords whose properties were compulsorily acquired for the WestConnex project have lost an appeal seeking $56.5 million in compensation, after the Valuer-General offered them just over half that amount.