The certificate allows the council to put the LEP on display for public consultation.

Mayor Tim Overall told The Chronicle that Canberra Airport had immediately taken action at the news.

He said the airport's injunction request, to halt the public consultation process, had been ''thrown out'' on Friday.

Legal counsel for Canberra Airport Andrew Leece confirmed the airport had taken action against the NSW Department of Planning.

''The matter has now been set down for hearing on the 14th December, which is luckily before submissions are finished,'' he said.

Mr Leece said the airport was challenging whether changes to NSW planning laws, made in July this year, should apply to the planning process. He said this could change how the development at Tralee was processed.

''Whatever happens we want the process to be right,'' he said.

''We just don't understand why you would want to build in a place with aircraft noise.''

Mr Leece said the airport would continue its opposition to Tralee.

''We will continue to fight it because we think the decision is wrong,'' he said.

The chief executive of Village Building Company, Bob Winnel, slammed the decision by Canberra Airport to aim for an injunction.

''The airport clearly lost their attempt to prevent the normal, transparent public consultation process on Tralee, which is beginning tomorrow for the very first time,'' he said.

''The Canberra Airport has constantly continued to thwart [Tralee]. They made their last ditch attempt to stop us on Friday, and they lost.''

Mr Winnel said Tralee complied with all planning and noise requirements, and he called for action to be taken over the airport's antics.

''There is a clear need for a parliamentary inquiry,'' he said.

''Why is the Commonwealth Department of Transport acting in collusion with Canberra Airport to devise new rules to be retrospectively applied to Tralee? Why have they been a party to these constant delaying tactics?''