DEVELOPER Innocento Tizzano is appealing Vincent council’s refusal to allow him to install a gym on the ground floor of his troubled Fitzgerald Street project.
The four-storey block’s construction had been plagued with troubles, the council heard in March.
Parked cars had been damaged, 10-litre paint tins had fallen from the third storey, staining the road, and some of the development wasn’t compliant with what the council had approved. Public art went missing and stone slabs to finish the building’s exterior turned out to be too heavy.
Cr Josh Topelberg said “this building is a shocker,” and the council voted down the gym request, sceptical of the developer’s claims it would be so small it wouldn’t add to parking congestion.
Amongst Mr Tizzano’s supporters was former mayor Nick Catania, an old family friend. Mr Tizzano has appealed to the state administrative tribunal, the unelected but powerful body that has the authority to override the decision of the elected council. A SAT directions hearing last week sent the matter to mediation.
by DAVID BELL
Perth Voice Interactive 
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