Press Release 19 June 2007 The NGOs Din l-Art Helwa and the Gaia Foundation today again questioned MEPA’s decision to issue a permit to redevelop ‘Ulysses Lodge’ in Ramla Bay, Gozo on the requested footprint. On 6th May the MEPA Board granted a permit...
6th June 2007 Din l-Art Helwa expresses its strong disapproval of today’s decision taken by the MEPA board to grant a permit for the construction of a large tourist complex in Ramla Bay, Xaghra, Gozo. The existing buildings known as ‘Ulysses Lodge’ are to be demolished and replaced with...
John Ruskin claimed that we know more about the lives of the ancient Greeks from the ruins of their buildings than from anything else they left behind. Anyone who has visited Pompei near Naples, a town frozen in time by the scorching heat of an explosion of the volcano Vesuvius, knows the fascinating experience of being transported back into the...
Maltatoday 1st October 2006, by James Debono – The Superintendence for Cultural Heritage has written to the Malta Environment and Planning Authority expressing concern on the impact of the proposed Ta Cenc development on the area overlooking Xewkija, Maltatoday has learned. The area known as Ta Gruwa is earmarked for the development of 49 villas. “This area contains an important stretch of...
Times of Malta, 23 August 2006, by Mark Micallef – The recently approved local plan for Gozo and Comino effectively gives the controversial Ta’ Cenc development plan the go ahead despite running contrary to the Structure Plan, according to Din L-Art Helwa. Together with “this so-called multi-ownership tourism hotel development”, the NGO said, the local plan now also allows construction in...