The guide book is written by well-known historians and conservators Sante Guido and Giuseppe Mantella. ...
Press Release 15th July 2014 Din l-Art Helwa states that, no matter the environmental studies now being requested, a bridge to Gozo will have such negative visual and environmental impact it should never have been proposed in the first place and should be struck off the national agenda. In particular if the bridge has to touch upon Comino or even...
2nd July 2014 The period for the public to submit comments to Government for the Strategic Plan for Environment and Development closed on June 20. The document called SPED, the new Structure Plan for Malta for the next decade, was available on Mepa’s website for all to study, together with an assessment of its environmental impacts. Government ministries, interested institutions, local...
Press Release 7th July 2014 Din l-Art Helwa has received a letter from Dr Robert Abela as lawyer for MEPA CEO Mr Johann Buttigieg wherein the NGO has been asked to apologise and withdraw a statement it issued last week. Making reference to a report on illegal development at San Blas Bay published on the front page by the Sunday Independent of...
Press Release 6th July 2014 Natural coastal areas should be left untouched and not be handed over to developers for speculation says ENGO Din l-Art Helwa. The coastal area adjoining the Pembroke Natura 2000 site should be protected from development, and Din l-Art Helwa calls on the government to show and defend its green credentials. Din l-Art Helwa calls on the Minister for the Environment, Leo Brincat and the Parliamentary Secretary for Planning, Michael Falzon, to ensure that the coastal garigue and agricultural areas at White Rocks in Bahar ic-Caghaq are not...
Din l-Art Helwa strongly condemns any illegal development at San Blas bay in Gozo. It is ironic that while MEPA’s enforcement directorate was recently applauded for issuing enforcement notices on similar developments at Golden Sands and Paradise Bay, no such action was taken on this illegal and unacceptable land clearing activity of a scheduled ecological site despite, according to...
Referring to the recent case of the pseudo-Gothic historic house in Spinola, at 127, Spinola Road, Spinola, Times of Malta requested Din l-Art Ħelwa to comment on the current issue. One may argue that there may be insufficient fiscal incentives in place to restore such a scheduled building. I would like to argue that this is...
Press Release 26th June 2014 Din l-Art Helwa has submitted further comments to government on the draft Strategic Plan for the Environment and Development, Malta’s principal environment and development plan for the 2014-2020 period. This draft Strategic Plan is intended to replace the Structure Plan of 1990 which was adopted by Parliament. Din l-Art Helwa maintains that this document is fatally flawed...
Din l-Art Helwa has submitted comments to MEPA on the draft Strategic Plan for the Environment and Development (SPED) View the comments here: SPEDconsultationJune2014 For further information see: https://dinlarthelwa.org/uncategorized/din-l-art-helwa-letter-to-parliamentary-committee-on-environment-and-development-planning/ https://dinlarthelwa.org/uncategorized/the-strategic-plan-sped-issued-by-the-government-is-not-valid/ ...