2,400 reports of suspected illegal works in 2024
Planning Authority’s annual report laments that increase in applications for recreational uses in the countryside adding pressure
Heritage watchdog clears scaled-down development near historic Dingli chapel
The Superintendence of Cultural Heritage has issued its clearance for an apartment block in close proximity to a medieval chapel in Dingli
Central Link: ODZ retail and office centre proposed in Attard

A retail and office development is being proposed outside development...

A retail and office development is being proposed outside...

Piecemeal strategy could turn Lija home into seven-storey building

In yet another case study on how developers are using piecemeal applications to...

In yet another case study on how developers are using...

Hondoq ‘tool shed’ has Qala councillors worried

The Qala local council is objecting to an application to build a small...

The Qala local council is objecting to an application to...

[WATCH] Bike lane accompanies completion of Luqa Road in Santa Lucija

The completion of Luqa Road in eight months cost Infrastructure Malta €2...

The completion of Luqa Road in eight months cost...

Expired permit from 1979 lives on thanks to Planning Authority’s magic wand

Expired permit from 1979 could get two-storey Dingli villa (and pool): how the Planning Authority’s magic wand can turn expired permits into countryside...

Expired permit from 1979 could get two-storey Dingli villa...

Mercury Tower: 92% of apartments on promise-of-sale

Joseph Portelli’s Mercury Tower already has 92% of its prospective...

Joseph Portelli’s Mercury Tower already has 92% of...

Cottonera activists urge residents to petition against AUM extension

Civil action group is set up to object to extensions of American University of...

Civil action group is set up to object to extensions of...

Mensija up in arms as Portelli project breaks up streetscape and threatens cave and trees

Portelli’s Mensija project has residents up in arms: the shade falls directly onto the nearby houses, and residents claim it will endanger the Ghar...

Portelli’s Mensija project has residents up in arms:...

Remove Ghajn Tuffieha illegalities, cultural heritage watchdog says

The Superintendence for Cultural Heritage has insisted that illegalities next...

The Superintendence for Cultural Heritage has insisted that...

Lija’s villa area faces three-storey apartment block rezoning

A characteristic villa area in Lija could be rezoned to permit 13.5-metre high...

A characteristic villa area in Lija could be rezoned to...

Wied Għomor guesthouse to be refused because of ‘illegal use’

Two successive permits issued in 2017 and 2018 had allowed a dilapidated...

Two successive permits issued in 2017 and 2018 had...

Plan for road-widening to link Paceville tunnel, but unavailable to public

Plans presented to the Planning Authority unavailable to the public but site suggests road-widening between Coast Road and St Andrews, with links to St...

Plans presented to the Planning Authority unavailable to...

Danish Village withdraws application for Ghadira beach concession

The withdrawal of the application follows objections presented by both the...

The withdrawal of the application follows objections...

Polidano wants illegal Safi boundary wall regularised

Construction magnate Charles Polidano has applied for the regularisation of a...

Construction magnate Charles Polidano has applied for the...

Isla council reiterates demand for free parking spaces in objection to AUM expansion

The council expresses concern that parking provisions are lacking and warns this will have a negative impact on residents

The council expresses concern that parking provisions are...

Tigné development to be finalised with 16-storey tower on coast

MIDI developers issue design plans for 16-storey tower but application details...

MIDI developers issue design plans for 16-storey tower but...

Lands Authority objects as PA to decide on Danish Village beach concession on Friday

The Malta Tourism Authority hints that it may drop its objection if beach loss at Għadira is reversed

The Malta Tourism Authority hints that it may drop its...

Heritage watchdog objecting to Birkirkara house demolition

Superintendence strongly objects to Birkirkara village core demolition

Superintendence strongly objects to Birkirkara village core...