We're gonna need a bigger deck Architect John Mainwaring designed the villa complex and opposed the plan for a larger deck. Clearance Rate: A wrap of the nation's property market for the week ending November 8th. A 10-YEAR fight between luxury Noosa villa owners over a deck has resulted in a win for ­people power and design integrity, according to an award-winning architect. John Mainwaring locked horns with former Thiess chief executive Martin Albrecht, who wanted a bigger deck at his Viridian Noosa Residences villa. BEST OF BEST: The Architect's pick Mr Mainwaring, who won awards for designing the complex, and other villa owners, including Kjerulf Ainsworth, son of billionaire poker machine king Len Ainsworth, opposed the extension. Viridian Noosa owners paid between $1.16 million and $2 million each for two-level villas overlooking Laguna Bay at Noosa Heads, with small staggered decks. Mr Albrecht, who paid almost $1.6 million for his villa in 2005, but does not live there full-time, wanted to join up two small decks to make a bigger deck, to improve his villa. The villas are used by residents and holiday renters and Mr Mainwaring purposely ­designed them so none would have large or party decks, thereby excluding sections of the holiday market. "We wanted to manage the amenity, including noise and privacy problems," he said. The Queensland Civil and Administrative Tribunal has now overturned a Body Corporate Commission decision that would have allowed Mr Albrecht's big deck. Mr Mainwaring, who paid $1.16 million for his Viridian Noosa villa in 2003, said it was "a landmark decision" and a great win for architecture. Last year, an adjudicator from the commission found Mr Albrecht's deck proposal was "unreasonably opposed" by other villa owners. The adjudicator was not satisfied the Body Corporate had acted reasonably in deciding not to pass Mr Albrecht's motion for a deck extension. A tribunal member said the adjudicator's decision "had the effect of overriding the will of a substantial majority of owners at Viridian" who ­opposed Mr Albrecht's deck extension. Tribunal member Peter Roney, QC, set aside the adjudicator's decision, saying she had erred in law in a number of respects. Mr Albrecht did not respond to a request for comment.