Shaun Pryor

Special Counsel | Brisbane

+61 7 3169 4607 spryor@hwle.com.au

Shaun Pryor is a Special Counsel in HWLE Lawyer’s Environment and Planning team, based in the Brisbane office.

Shaun specialises in town planning, government, infrastructure and environmental law. He is experienced in advising both public and private sector clients on land use and development matters, environmental compliance, the acquisition and resumption of land, drafting local government statutory instruments, and conducting litigation in the Planning and Environment Court, the Land Court, the Land Appeal Court and the Court of Appeal of Queensland.

Shaun is a member of the Queensland Environmental Law Association.

Expertise

Experience

  • ASX listed company advising in relation to various large scale infrastructure projects and catalyst developments (involving the development of 3000-7000 lot residential subdivisions and master planned communities), including the preparation and negotiation of several infrastructure and funding agreements for those developments.
  • Genamson Holdings Pty Ltd advising in an application to the Land Court for the determination of compensation in relation to two notices of intention to resume given by the Moreton Bay Regional Council.
  • Department of Education advising in relation to the provision of two new schools.
  • Boral Resources (Qld) Pty Ltd advising in relation to changes to its development approval for its quarry at Ormeau.
  • Cross River Rail Delivery Authority advising in relation to the acquisition of land for the Cross River Rail project in Brisbane.
  • REMONDIS advising in relation to environmental matters at its waste disposal facility at Swanbank.
  • A Large Developer advising in relation to an approval and associated environmental offsets under the Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999.
  • A private client advising on a shopping centre proponent in two related commercial shopping centre appeals in the Planning and Environment Court of Queensland.
  • Australian Red Cross advising in relation to the compulsory acquisition of its Cairns Wellbeing Centre.
  • Brisbane City Council advising in respect of the operation of the Building Act 1975 and the Planning Act 2016 for building works assessable under the planning scheme and building assessment work under the Building Act 1975.