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NGOs want timeframe for development planning legislation The development planning legislation needs to be amended immediately and made more equitable. While a recent press release issued by the Minister for Planning Clint Camilleri promised some changes to the legislation, there was no commitment to any timeframes. Furthermore, there are no guarantees that the new legislation will solve the problems our country and its citizens are facing. The recent...

Din l-Art Ħelwa has filed an application for the revocation of a permit which sanctioned two penthouses in Sannat in flagrant disregard of a Court of Appeal judgment which had declared them to be illegal. The story started some years ago when an application (PA2035/21) was filed to build 29 apartments, 20 basement garages and a pool in a site in...

  Kindly note that the deadline for submissions to the DLH Architectural Awards has been extended till the end of September.  Din l-Art Ħelwa has launched the XVIII Architectural Heritage Awards Competition, a long-standing initiative by the NGO that motivates and inspires architectural best practice. For years, Din l-Art Ħelwa has lamented the loss of the island’s natural and built heritage. The past...

Din l-Art Ħelwa, Rota and the Gozo Cycling Club are against the unnecessary uprooting of trees in the Marsalforn to Victoria road widening project.  On 11 April a delegation from Din l-Art Ħelwa was invited to attend a meeting with Minister Clint Camilleri to discuss the Marsalforn road widening project. The meeting was called in response to a DLĦ appeal to the...

  9 organisations strongly condemn the Government’s attempt to change the Ħal Far Local Plan so as to allow the construction of an airstrip for model aeroplanes in Wied Żnuber. The public can object to these plans by sending an email to halfar.review@pa.org.mt by the 24 July.   The proposed changes stems from a secret agreement made in February 2022 between...

Din l-Art Ħelwa commends the unprecedented action taken by the seven resident associations calling for a comprehensive review of the outdated Local Plans.  The Planning Authority has long lost sight of its vision to make Malta and Gozo a more pleasant and desirable place to live in. The Planning Authority no longer acts on behalf of the community to provide a...

Din l-Art Ħelwa, Malta’s national trust, has been honoured to receive the patronage of the President of the Republic of Malta, H.E. Myriam Spiteri Debono, creating an unbroken tradition that started decades ago. When DLĦ was founded in 1965, then Governor-General of Malta H.E. Sir Maurice Dorman accepted to become its patron. He was followed in 1971 by Sir Anthony Mamo, who was the last Governor-General and remained the DLĦ patron when...