McLean v Thames Coromandel District Council - [1989] 2 NZLR 113

Town and country planning — District schemes — Specified departure — Appellant had purchased land on assurances and information from Council that he could build two units on it — Subsequently Council refused permission to build two units as being contrary to district scheme — Planning Tribunal held it was precluded from considering evidence of assurances and information given by Council — Whether Tribunal was precluded from considering such evidence — Whether injustice and hardship to an individual could be a matter of public interest — Whether refusal by Tribunal to consider such evidence amounted to a wrongful declining of jurisdiction — Town and Country Planning Act 1977, ss 62 and 69.