In a last ditch effort to save a public park, an inner Sydney community group is bringing the James Packer-led Crown Resorts to court for the very last time.

At the heart of the case was the controversial Crown Sydney Hotel Resort development, which will turn a public park in Bangaroo, New South Wales (NSW) into the city’s second casino, according to the Australian Financial Review.

The Environmental Defender’s Office (EDO) of NSW, representing the community group Millers Point Fund Inc., puts into question the propriety of the contested piece of land, arguing that the NSW Planning Assessment Commission or PAC has failed to defend the space for public use, preserved for that purpose in a concept plan approved in 2007.

Michael Hall, counsel of the petitioners, will go head to head with Lendlease counsel Neil Williams, Crown lawyer Richard Lancaster. Counsels Ian Pike and Richard Beasley, who conducted the recent inquiry into council conduct for the NSW government, will be represented by Bangaroo planning minister Rob Stokes.