can some one please help me this topic of commercial law please?!! Many thanks !!

Peter is a real estate developer. He develops residential apartment complexes in the Wollon local area. He purchases a large block of land for $4 million and plans to build a large apartment complex on the block at a considerable profit. But Wollon Council denies his development application on the basis of a road widening proposal that will substantially reduce the size of the block. This road widening proposal reduces the value of the block of Peter's land to $2 million.

Peter reads the council certificate he obtained from Wollongong Council. If the block of land had been subject to a road widening proposal then it should have been disclosed by Wollon Council in the certificate. There is no such disclosure in the certificate. As Peter didn't bother to read the certificate before he purchased the land, he is relieved to find the council has made this mistake. He secretly knows that if Wollongong Council had been careful and included the road widening disclosure in the certificate, he would not have seen it and gone ahead with the land purchase anyway.

Peter now wants to sue Wollon Council in negligence for economic loss. Wollon Council claims that negligence only applies to physical actions, not written words, and is only applicable to physical damage to people or their property, not economic loss.

Advise Peter