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Traffic wardens could end up carrying out construction site inspections under proposed legislative changes, architects said on Monday, raising concerns about th
Last week, Prime Minister Robert Abela tabled a report in parliament that took a close look at the construction industry and found what it described as “deep-rooted problems” across the board. The government had commissioned the report after a house adjacent to a construction site collapsed early last March, causing the death of Miriam Pace. Abela did not initially intend to publish the report, saying the recommendations were gradually being implemented. But he reversed his decision after the Pace family said they were “baffled and disappointed” that it would not see the light of day....
New In an interview with Times of Malta, he conceded that the mere “undoing of mistakes” will already prove to be very expensive. For too long, policies issued in the 1980s, coupled with the disastrous 2006 Local Plans and the construction glut of recent years, have ruined our towns and streetscapes while spilling over into ODZ and rural areas. The ‘novel’ fascination for high-rise buildings, most of which jar completely with their context and with the general Maltese landscape, has continued to exacerbate matters. Besides these “mistakes”, Pizzuto paints a dour picture of the p...