Sensational-Adelaide.com

A 14-storey building is planned for the site of popular Fringe venue Little Miss Mexico, on the corner of Grenfell and Frome streets.

But the City Council says its balconies would overhang the footpath too much.

The 45m tall Karidis Corporation project would house a mix of offices and serviced apartments.

The council said the design breaches its encroachment policy, under which at least half the floor area of balconies must be behind the property boundary.

All of the Grenfell St balconies' floor area would overhang the footpath, as well as more than half of the area of the Frome St balconies.

The total width of balconies on some levels also would exceed the maximum allowed, which is 30 per cent of the building facade width.

Councillors this month voted to enforce the encroachment policy, meaning building work could not start even if the design was approved by the Development Assessment Commission, because the council controls the airspace above the footpath.

A staff report said the balconies added architectural interest to the facades but "the scale of the encroachment is significant, offering limited public benefit in return".

"The design of corner buildings has a great impact on the character of the street or precinct," it said.

"The proposed alignment of the building and balconies . . is not consistent with the existing street frontage."

The council's Development Assessment Panel will consider the proposal next month and give advice to the DAC.

Asked if the project would be redesigned so it did not breach the encroachment policy, Karidis Corporation chief executive Peter Karidis declined to comment.

Little Miss Mexico reopened last week after receiving a one month trading licence extension.

Nathan wrote:*yawn*. Getting sick of this same building getting copy and pasted all over the city with minor changes. Dear developers, some variety in architectual styles please.

Pants wrote:It's better than I thought it would be given some of the developer's other buildings, but that's not saying much. I also wish they'd push the design envelope a bit more, but buyers care more for interiors. Until that changes, we're likely to have to keep putting up with cookie cutter residential buildings like this one unfortunately.

Pants wrote:I also wish they'd push the design envelope a bit more, but buyers care more for interiors.