Mercury boss Portelli does not want to pay €41,000 imposed by PA for ODZ permit
Gozitan mega-developer Joseph Portelli’s companies is refusing to pay a €41,075 planning gain imposed as a condition by the Planning Authority for a permit on six...
Black Gold bar seeks to regularise extension of seating area
The Sliema council is objecting to the regularisation of an extension of the Black Gold bar seating platform, which restricted the pavement space by a further 0.5m
Build now, sanction later: Owner applies to sanction illegal works at il-Bidni

The Planning Authority is monitoring a stretch of terraced fields in the outskirts of Marsaskala and Zabbar after the owners continued with the illegal...

The Planning Authority is monitoring a stretch of terraced...

Malta’s largest shopping mall proposed in Għaxaq

Impact on air quality and junction capacity to be offset by creation of new...

Impact on air quality and junction capacity to be offset by...

Domino effect: Assault on Sliema street despite 2018 scheduling

One permit leads to another: 2018 scheduling of Sacre Coeur’s row of...

One permit leads to another: 2018 scheduling of Sacre...

Tribunal revokes Bonnici Brothers’ hotel permit in Milner Street

The Environment and Planning Tribunal has revoked an outline permit for the...

The Environment and Planning Tribunal has revoked an...

Marsaskala council objects to Lay Lay development

Council and residents fear loss of parking spaces since eight-storey...

Council and residents fear loss of parking spaces since...

Savoy hotel extension intentionally designed to contrast with old building

Photomontage shows how new business centre will look to the thousands of visitors who travel on Savoy Hill every day

Photomontage shows how new business centre will look to the...

How to fit 22 apartments in a 300sq.m plot in Paola

Council objecting to development of five storey development consisting of small...

Council objecting to development of five storey development...

Holidaying in Birkirkara: hotel proposed opposite Santa Liena parish church

Hotel proposal envisages restoration of palazzo but also a new four storey building on part of its garden overlooking Triq Mike Pulis across the street from...

Hotel proposal envisages restoration of palazzo but also a...

PA refuses to renew permit near Grade 2 building in Marsaxlokk

Planning Authority refuses to renew development proposal near neoclassical...

Planning Authority refuses to renew development proposal...

St Augustine College rector: ‘We will be buried’

St Augustine College rector objects to nine-storey Pietà development...

St Augustine College rector objects to nine-storey...

‘Beef Bar’ pontoon for patrons in breach of policy

Planning Authority told of negative precedent for coastal access, but Planning...

Planning Authority told of negative precedent for coastal...

11-storey hotel and residential block approved at Smart City

Planning Authority approves condition obliging developers to present a design...

Planning Authority approves condition obliging developers...

PA approves new Gżira roundabout and Manoel Island bridge

Planning board approves condition requiring a bicycle lane in the new...

Planning board approves condition requiring a bicycle lane...

Ħondoq project is dead, as environmentalists celebrate court judgement

Appeals Court upholds planning appeals tribunal’s rejection of controversial Ħondoq ir-Rummien marina project, sealing its fate after 22-year process

Appeals Court upholds planning appeals tribunal’s...

Application for 30,000sq.m obstacle course on Ta’Qali farmland withdrawn

Architect asks for a postponement of a decision which was due on Thursday, claiming government intends to issue a new policy regulating outside gyms

Architect asks for a postponement of a decision which was...

PA set to approve two 11-storey towers in Smart City

The two plots where the development is set to take place were originally zoned...

The two plots where the development is set to take place...

Abandoned Sa Maison elderly home to rise to nine floors and house 48 apartments

​An imposing residential development consisting of 48 apartments is being proposed instead of the Sa Maison elderly home in Pieta

​An imposing residential development consisting of 48...

PA will not renew Kalkara valley-side project permit but instead reassess it afresh in exceptional move

The Planning Authority says it cannot ‘renew’ application originally approved in 2012 and renewed in 2017 but has to re-assess it on the merits of...

The Planning Authority says it cannot ‘renew’...