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‘A dangerous precedent’: City planners reject ‘snorkel’ bedrooms – Sydney Morning Herald
Plans for apartments in a Melbourne 4-storey skyscraper that rely on bed rooms with no windows to the outside have run afoul with city officials.
Apartments in a Melbourne skyscraper that rely on snorkel bedrooms for natural light will set a dangerous precedent, city planners have found, prompting them to reject plans for the multi-storey tower.
ASX-listed real estate manager Cromwell Property Group wants to reconfigure a Docklands building it owns, currently occupied by the Australian Bureau of Meteorology, and bolt-on a 54-storey commercial office, hotel and apartment tower.
But the design of apartments in the fund managers soaring, b…
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