It will have no car parking spaces, it won't have air conditioning, and you won't be able to sell your apartment for a profit beyond the average price increase for the suburb.

And yet almost 200 people want to buy one of these proposed Fairfield apartments - the latest project put forward by a group of architects and true believers who want to change how Melbourne develops.

The same group on Tuesday finally got a planning permit from Moreland Council, for a small, "deep green" apartment building in Brunswick, next to Anstey railway station.

It attracted controversy last year because it was initially approved by the council with no car parking spaces. But a neighbouring developer objected to the approval, and took it to the state planning tribunal.