The power of local governments to exact contributions for infrastructure has a long history in Queensland stretching back over 30 or more years. During that time the imposition of conditions on development approvals to exact monetary contributions has been extensively supervised by the courts employing legal tests that were originally developed in an administrative law/judicial review context.

It is only by understanding this history that the cumulative effect of legislative changes on the legal rights of applicants for development, with respect to infrastructure contributions, will be fully appreciated.

In this paper, Partner David Nicholls provides some history and context to the discussion of Infrastructure Charges Reform.

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