A planning body has approved property developer Adrian Fini and wife Michaela’s $26 million plan to build an apartment project on the site of their former home in Claremont.
A planning body has approved property developer Adrian Fini and wife Michaela’s $26 million plan to build an apartment project on the site of their former home in Claremont.
The state government’s Statutory Planning Committee today greenlit an application to build an eight-apartment, three-storey building on 8 Bindaring Parade.
The development, titled Bindaring Apartments, is estimated to cost $25.8 million.
It comprises eight three and four-bedroom apartments, a basement carpark, a penthouse-level swimming pool and communal gardens.
RP data shows the Finis bought the Bindaring Parade site for $23 million in 2007 and the six-bedroom, four-bathroom property was listed for rent at $3,000 a week in 2017.
The Fini's home on the site was demolished and the 3,813 square metre-lot was partially cleared around 2022.
Planning Solutions, on behalf of the Finis, submitted the development application to the Significant Development Assessment Unit in late 2024.
A render of the proposed Bindaring Apartments project. Image: Giorgi via DPLH documents
At the meeting today, SPC member Megan Adair said the scale and form of the proposed development was sympathetic to the location.
“This is a very good demonstration of how you can get some density into an area like this without it compromising the character of an area as well,” she said.
“Yes, it’s an affluent area... on merit, this is an application that is worthy of support.”The Western Australian Planning Commission previously approved a three-storey comprising six apartments and two townhouses to be built on the site, in a 2020 decision.
However, the proposal hits a planning snag over bushfire risk and vegetation issues, according to the development application.
Planning Solutions director Ben Doyle said the previously approved development had been designed in strict compliance of the Town of Claremont’s height limit.
"But design compromises that were made to achieve that strict compliance had the effect of making the approved development unattractive to the market," he said at the meeting.
“The inflexibility of the scheme was constraining our options for an alternative design... in response to the site context."
The site is bound by Bindaring Parade and the Swan River foreshore, nearby to Stirling Highway, Freshwater Bay and Blackburne’s The Grove.
