SLIGHTLY smaller designs have been released for the apartment block planned to run along Fitzgerald Street from Alma to Raglan Roads, following widespread opposition to the previous 13-storey design.
Celsius Property Group’s proposal for 97 apartments across 13-storeys was rejected by the Joint Development Assessment Panel in December 2022.
It was voted down due to being far taller than Vincent council’s usual guidelines of six-storeys in that area, and the bulk and scale was deemed to impose “a significant negative impact” on amenity.
The new design is nine storeys and includes 104 apartments. It also packs in 179 residential car bays, above the council policy of 88 bays
Celsius’ new application says the new version has “a more sympathetic and contextual built form”.
Residents so far haven’t been won over.
Adjacent resident Neil Stacey has chatted to many locals since the new plans were released, and says the sentiment is still firmly opposed.
“It’s still an over-development,” he says.
“The impact on the neighbourhood is massive”, with major concerns including overshadowing and several hundred car movements per day car clogging the narrow laneways behind the building.
He says residents would be happy with a design that stuck to the rules, but they’re ready for another fight to keep this one away.
Public comment is open via imagine.vincent.wa.gov.au until September 28, then the designs will go to Vincent council’s planners who’ll prepare a recommendation for the JDAP to make the final call.
by DAVID BELL
Perth Voice Interactive 
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