# National Protest Over Controversial Planning Bills Announced Malta’s usually sun-splashed streets are set to reverberate with drums and dissent this Saturday as a coalition of NGOs, residents’ associations, hunters’ groups, heritage activists and even parish priests call for a national protest against two fast-tracked planning bills they warn will “concrete over the soul of…
A 17th-century palazzo that once hosted Grand Masters and Maltese nobility could become Mdina’s next five-star hideaway, according to plans filed with the Planning Authority last week. The proposal, submitted by a consortium led by boutique-hotel specialist Corinthia, seeks to convert Palazzo Costanzo on Villegaignon Street into a 30-suite “ultra-luxury” property with rooftop infinity pool,…
Valletta’s Republic Street was briefly louder than the usual midday café chatter on Thursday, as a dozen young architects and activists unfurled a hand-painted banner that read “Homes Not Holding Companies” and chanted “MDA, let us build!” Passers-by stopped sipping their kinnie, tourists lowered their cameras, and pensioners on the City Gate benches leaned forward…
**”Ġustizzja għal Artna”: NGOs unite against planning reforms they say will “sell Malta to the highest bidder”** Valletta’s Republic Street echoed with chants of “Mhux għalina, mhux għal uliedna!” yesterday as 14 Maltese environmental and heritage NGOs unfurled a 40-metre banner from the Upper Barrakka Gardens, launching the Ġustizzja għal Artna (Justice for Our Land)…
Opposition cries ‘chaos’ as Pietà Labour councillor tears up party card ———————————————————————- It took one terse Facebook post to rattle the red fortress of Malta’s governing party. On Tuesday evening, Labour councillor Etienne Borg announced his resignation from Partit Laburista with the line: “I can no longer defend what I no longer recognise.” Within minutes,…
Who Really Runs Malta: Developers, Politicians or the PA? It’s a question that bubbles up every time a new tower cranes its neck above Valletta’s skyline or when a pristine valley in Rabat suddenly sprouts a concrete scar: who actually calls the shots on this rock we call home—developers, politicians, or the Planning Authority (PA)?…
Lija’s famous citrus-scented breeze may soon carry the clang of scaffolding rather than the perfume of orange blossom if a new six-storey apartment block gets the green light on the edge of the village’s last surviving swathe of agricultural land. ADPD (Alternattiva Demokratika – Partit Demokratiku) has sounded the alarm, warning that the proposed development…
