Plans for a ten-storey residential building on the current site of Hamilton’s Quickie Lickie Laundromat have been submitted to planning.The application was submitted by Cooper Gardner architects on behalf of property owner Walter Cross.It notes that the scheme is not in line with the City of Hamilton Plan, but requests a “quick refusal” so the application can be brought to the consideration of the Minister of Environment. The proposed building on Serpentine Road would house 20 single-bedroom apartments and a two-bedroom penthouse apartment, along with a fitness centre on the top floor. An underground parking area with room for 11 cars and 17 motorcycles would also be built.The plan is for the existing laundromat to be demolished, with a new laundromat built in the building’s ground floor.The application also noted that the proposed building will be outside the viewing corridor of the Cathedral, provide “much needed” housing in the city and would be built on “one of the lowest elevations” in the city. A section of the application reads: “We acknowledge that the proposed development is not compliant with the City of Hamilton Plan policy, however we are aware of precedent applications which have been approved on appeal by the Minister of the Environment. We respectfully request the Department of Planning’s quick refusal with the recommendation of support of this application for the consideration of the Minister of the Environment.”The application specifically notes a ten-storey condo building proposed by Dennis Chin for a site adjacent to the new plan.That plan, submitted in 2007, was initially rejected by the Development Applications Board because it did not comply with the city’s limit of seven storeys.However, it was later approved on appeal by former Environment Minister El James, who supported a Planning inspector’s recommendation that the project should be given ‘in principle’ planning permission.