An inner-city Italian restaurant has not backed down in its fight to change its cafe licence to a bar licence after the City of Vincent refused the application in May.

La Mortazza had also proposed to change its operating hours and increase its capacity.

The Fitzgerald Street cafe’s original application was refused by the City of Vincent in May after being told its plans were “incompatible with its setting”.

According to a city officer’s report, the two main reasons for refusal was the proposal’s “inability to adequately mitigate the anticipated increase in noise from extended operating hours” and “the noise levels not being compatible with the surrounding residential context”.

After the city’s refusal La Mortazza went to the State Administrative Tribunal, which invited the city to

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