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Finance Minister Clyde Caruana said that building aesthetics will be factored in to a new scheme offering tax relief on the purchase and restoration of old prop
The Msida promenade will soon include a bicycle lane as well as new lighting and upgrading in a new regeneration project announced on Thursday. Transport Minis
Malta’s planning mayhem: What can be done? After George Vella’s social media foray on the uglification of Żejtun, JAMES DEBONO catches up with different stakeholders to ask them what can be done to save the day amid Malta’s planning mayhem 14 May 2021, 7:26am by James Debono “Anyone who suggests quick-fix solutions to resolve the crisis in the industry, particularly in relation to planning and building regulation, has not yet fully grasped the gravity of the situation” Faced with an apartment block proposed in his own neighbourhood, President George Vella called for a review of pl...
Six NGOs have urged Msida residents and other concerned citizens to endorse their calls for a controversial flyover project in the town to be sent back to the drawing board. The NGOs have written to Infrastructure Minister Ian Borg, Planning Minister Aaron Farrugia and Msida local council and asked them to reconsider Msida Creek plans, which they say will not solve the area’s long-term problems and instead destroy a community. First announced in 2019, the Msida Creek roadworks project proposes to eliminate Msida Circus junctions and replace them with flyovers, allowing traffic to flow uni...
Infrastructure Malta has built more than roads but also a reputation for having a dubious relationship with the rules. Jessica Arena looks at the evidence. When Infrastructure Malta swooped down recently on a quiet residential road in Żebbuġ and started to widen it, the action raised the ire of residents, as well as environmentalists, who held that the works breached all road policies. This reaction was hardly a first for the government agency that oversees construction projects. Since its founding in the summer of 2018, IM has prided itself on getting things done. But the way it ste...