Portelli accepts to pay €41,000 imposed by PA for ODZ permit
A company partly owned by Joseph Portelli has withdrawn a request to waive a planning gain fee of €41,075 imposed by the Planning Authority
Bidnija sheep farm permit revoked but application will be reheard
Lawyer Claire Bonello on behalf of NGOs insists law only allows the PA to revoke or modify a permit and the reprocessing of the application will be in breach of law, but PA lawyer...
‘Eye-candy’ photomontages can fool planners

Photomontages showing how a development will look like to any person standing...

Photomontages showing how a development will look like to...

ODZ shopping mall and hotel proposed next to Marsaskala petrol station

Development which includes a supermarket is being proposed next to petrol station and 155 meters away from another supermarket also being proposed outside the...

Development which includes a supermarket is being proposed...

Portelli bid for 200-unit Msida block has flood evacuation plan

Eight-storey block on Msida warehouse land beneath Regional Road suggests...

Eight-storey block on Msida warehouse land beneath Regional...

Robert Abela urged to honour electoral promise and preserve Wied Żnuber

The Għaqda Storja u Kultura Birżebbuġa has written its fifth formal letter to the Prime Minister on the Wied Żnuber area in Ħal Far

The Għaqda Storja u Kultura Birżebbuġa has written its...

Five terraced houses proposed in L-Andrijiet rural hamlet

Five terraced houses are being proposed on a 771sq.m plot of land in the rural...

Five terraced houses are being proposed on a 771sq.m plot...

PA approves 10-storey hotel and 75 more apartments in Townsquare project

Project approved by all seven board members present despite chorus of disapproval of elderly Sliema residents speaking during the meeting

Project approved by all seven board members present despite...

PA postpones decision on Labour councillor’s ODZ permit for three-storey elderly home

Application proposes the demolition of a one-storey abandoned farm building with a footprint of 1,020sq.m and its replacement by a three-storey nursing home...

Application proposes the demolition of a one-storey...

[WATCH] 'This is our square': Activists, locals share why they're protesting the Mosta trees uprooting

Activists and residents protest the uprooting and transplanting of Mosta trees that were home to White Wagtails

Activists and residents protest the uprooting and...

Controversial Taċ-Ċawla social housing unit nearing completion

Works nearing completion on Gozo housing project that attracted criticism...

Works nearing completion on Gozo housing project that...

BirdLife condemns 'butchering' of Mosta square trees, ERA says trees will only be 'transplanted'

BirdLife Malta is urgently appealing to the authorities to halt the ongoing work, citing the trees' importance for roosting birds

BirdLife Malta is urgently appealing to the authorities to...

Poacher kills flamingo at Qalet Marku as autumn shooting season gets underway

Protected flamingo is killed at Qalet Marku, as a number of GPS-tracked and highly-protected birds of prey tracked have recently disappeared as they...

Protected flamingo is killed at Qalet Marku, as a...

Newly-discovered Sea Lavender named after Maltese botanist Edwin Lanfranco

Limonium lanfrancoi, is only found in a small area within the Maltese archipelago and is unique to the world, and now considered an endangered species with a...

Limonium lanfrancoi, is only found in a small area within...

New Maltese endemic plant discovered: Lanfranco’s Sea Lavender

The flowering plant is a small woody shrub living along a very narrow coastal...

The flowering plant is a small woody shrub living along a...

Final refusal for Attard’s ‘second’ petrol station

The Planning Authority’s appeals tribunal has re-confirmed its 2019...

The Planning Authority’s appeals tribunal has...

Hamrun’s glazed floor townhouse angers watchdog as PA policies flouted

Hands tied by PA’s ‘outline permit’ issued against the advice of heritage authorities, which means extra glass floor on gutted 19th century...

Hands tied by PA’s ‘outline permit’...

Plans for Sliema Ferries underground parking resurrected

The government will renew for a second time a permit obtained back in 2012 for...

The government will renew for a second time a permit...

Buffer zone with Wied Znuber to be declared ODZ

Robert Abela announces changes will be made in Wied Żnuber in bid to...

Robert Abela announces changes will be made in Wied...

Labour mayor dubs planning permit for Bonnici Bros ODZ Burmarrad parking ‘obscene’

All board members vote in favour of sanctioning an illegally constructed basement car park for heavy vehicles along Triq is-Sardin in Burmarrad

All board members vote in favour of sanctioning an...