The Adelaide Hills Council says a successful court prosecution should serve as a warning to anyone ignoring the district’s planning rules.
A resident has been fined more than $22,000 after constructing a large shed on his Kersbrook property without approval and failing to follow an enforcement notice to remove it.
Along with the fine, the court ordered him to pay council prosecution costs, court fees and a victims of crime levy.
In sentencing, His Honour Senior Judge Durrant observed that the offending was “brazen” and a “wanton disregard of the planning regime”, undertaken despite clear awareness that approval had been refused.
The resident’s good character was taken in consideration, however the Court needed to enforce the penalty as a specific and general deterrence.
