In an interview given yesterday to journalist Yannick Pace, Prime Minister Robert Abela said that the government will go ahead with its planning reforms which were described by NGOs as the most corrupt planning reform in history. In the same interview, when answering questions about the housing affordability crisis, the Prime Minister also said that the property sector is not a major economic sector and that many Maltese have taken out loans to buy a second property, which they are repaying by renting it out.
On the housing affordability crisis, the Prime Minister said that it was a challenge and that the government had given subsidies and will be giving out more.
The Prime Minister also said that he is not in favour of expanding the local plans and prefers vertical construction development. He also said that he is against the sanctioning of industrial plants with the new planning reform, but reiterated that sanctioning for home-owners and dwellings will remain in place in the proposals.
The Ramblers Association which is leading opposition against the reform has raised a warning that the government is trying to push this reform after a period of quite due to the holidays.
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