Environmentalists have welcomed the Prime Minister’s announcement, made yesterday in Parliament, that the government will turn White Rocks into an open and family park. The decision resonates with the government’s decision about Manoel Island. The Rambler’s Association said that the government should schedule such parks so as to keep them beyond the reach of speculators.
However, Rambler’s President Ingram Bondin said that this move does not compensate for the government’s destructive planning reforms and the organisation will keep opposing these reforms.
The Labour government under Joseph Muscat’s administration pondered about turning the dilapidated site into a luxury tourist resort but the plan never materialised.
No details have been released yet about the government’s plans.
The White Rocks complex was built in the 1960s for the use of the British garrison stationed in Pembroke and their families and was known as the St Patrick’s Officers Married Quarters. It was handed over to the Maltese government in 1979 and converted into a tourist complex called the white Rocks Holiday Complex with designs by architect Richard England. It became a popular resort for the Maltese and tourists alike but was abandoned in the mid 1990s. Nowadays, the site is often occupied by people with caravans and is known as an area associated with vice.
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