Din l-Art Helwa Press Release – 2nd August 2008 Din l-Art Helwa recognises that the existing exhibition spaces at St John’s Co-Cathedral Museum are in need of refurbishment. Furthermore, the spaces are not large enough to exhibit the unique historic Tapestries which are undergoing restoration, as well as many other artefacts which cannot be displayed in the existing...
Din l-Art Helwa Press Release – 31 July 2008 This afternoon Din l-Art Helwa presented a series of suggestions to the Prime Minister as part of the ongoing discussions on the reform of Mepa. Din l-Art Helwa is pleased that the Prime Minister has taken on the reform of Mepa and is giving it the importance it deserves. Whilst accepting that Mepa...
Sunday Times of Malta, 27th July 2008 – During May, 14 per cent of outside development zone (ODZ) applications (17 out of 123) submitted to the Malta Environment and Planning Authority proposed extending the development boundaries further out onto uncommitted land. In June, such applications rose to 20 per cent (24 out of 118). The lion’s share of all ODZ applications is...
Times of Malta, 12th July 2008, by Mark Micallef The appeal against Mepa’s decision to revoke the infamous permit for a tourism complex in Ramla l-Ħamra may be dealt a mortal blow even before it gets going properly if the board hearing the case accepts the authority’s plea to declare the process null. The process has technically started but the board has...
Time of Malta, 11th July 2008 Flimkien għal Ambjent Aħjar yesterday maintained that the only equitable solution in the Ramla Bay project is the government’s acquisition of the ODZ site in Gozo at a non-development value. “This is not unrealistic, especially considering the option of exchanging it for public land available within the development zones,” the NGO said. The Mepa Appeals Board meets...
Din l-Art Helwa Press Release – 8th July 2008 Din l-Art Helwa is pleased to note that the Heritage Team at Mepa was vigilant enough to discover important archaeological remains dating to the Temple Period at a demolition site in Tarxien. This site lies within the buffer zone of the Neolithic Temples, and the discovery is being described as the most...
Times of Malta, 9th July 2008 The Xagħra local council has urged the Mepa Appeals Board meeting on Friday to dismiss the appeal concerning the proposed development at the former Ulysses Lodge site, in Ramla Bay “and preserve this site of unique touristic and natural value”. “The Ramla Bay and valley is a site of extraordinary beauty which must be enjoyed by...
Maltatoday, 6th July 2008 A new chairman of the Malta Environment and Planning Authority has been appointed. We wish him well, recognising that he has a formidable task ahead to sort out the many insidious problems lurking within the organisation that he has accepted to captain. The current problems are not of his making, but he now has the duty of trying...
Letter to the Sunday Times of Malta, 6th July 2008 The New York Times (June 25) carried a travelogue on Malta. As I read the blogs I came across the following; “Last month, I took my wife and three children to Malta for a week. Your story brought back some wonderful memories which are still very fresh in my mind. All you’ve said...
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