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AP VALLETTA OVERALL WINNER OF XVIII DIN L-ART ĦELWA ARCHITECTURAL HERITAGE AWARDS AP Valletta has been awarded the ‘Judge Maurice Caruana Curran Award’ in the XVIII Architectural Heritage Awards. The award is named after the founder of Din l-Art Ħelwa, which next year celebrates its 60th anniversary with a comprehensive list of events. The awards, sponsored by Belair Property, were held at...

Record 1,500 planning objections filed by DLĦ Last year, Din l-Art Ħelwa filed a record-breaking 1,500 objections to individual planning applications in 2022 – close to a third of which concern proposed developments in Gozo. The NGO has a team – the Heritage and Environment Protection sub-committee – which scans all the applications and prioritises those of most concern. The sub-committee is...

Last week the Court of Appeal ruled in Din l-Art Helwa’s favour in three separate cases concerning developments in Birżebbuġa, l-Iklin and Ħamrun.   Din l-Art Ħelwa had initially objected to the three separate proposed developments, then followed through with proceedings in front of the Environment and Planning review Tribunal and continued in...

Din l-Art Ħelwa would like to remind applicants that submissions for the XVI Architectural Heritage Awards established by the organisation should be for projects completed in the last year up to 1st October 2021 and must be received at Din l-Art Ħelwa, 133 Melita Street, Valletta by Friday 3rd December, 2021. The Awards...