A fresh planning application has landed on the desks of the Planning Authority asking for retrospective sanctioning of a half-built capitainerie that has loomed, unfinished and unloved, over Gżira’s Strand for almost four years. The structure – a squat concrete shell wedged between the yacht marina and the popular seafront promenade – was never granted…
Court confirms sanctioning of illegalities at Fortina’s Sliema lido By Hot Malta staff The Court of Appeal has upheld a planning tribunal’s decision to sanction years of illegal development at the Fortina Lido on Sliema’s once-pristine foreshore, closing a chapter that many residents hoped would end with demolition rather than forgiveness. In a 42-page judgment…
**Criminal report filed against ex-OPM, Lands chiefs on €13m Fortina case ‘fraud’** A criminal complaint has been lodged with Malta’s police commissioner accusing two former senior public officials of fraud, misappropriation and criminal conspiracy over the controversial €13 million expropriation of the Fortina Hotel’s seafront footprint in 2018. The report, signed by Repubblika president Robert…
