Tag: local plans
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I create problems and then I solve them – Supreme Leader Robert Abela
We are gently reminding our readers that before the Prime Minister stealthily ushered a massive construction and planning reform in parliament that aims to disregard all of Malta’s environmental regulations instituted in the past thirty years, previously, the Prime Minister used to harper about committing injustice if the local plans changed. Now, it’s basically “to…
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Some questions by PN MPs but no pushback on the change to the Local Plans of Villa Rosa
I’ve watched the all of the session of the Parliamentary Committee for Planning and the Environment which discussed the changes to the Local Plans in relation to Villa Rosa. You can also see the session yourself here. The Minister for Planning is Clint Camilleri who is also Minister of Gozo. Opposition spokesperson and shadow minister…
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Opposition Leader Bernard Grech denies he approved any changes to Local Plans but no comment on Villa Rosa development proposal
Opposition Leader and Leader of the Partit Nazzjonalista, Bernard Grech denied he agreed to any changes to the Local Plans. He also said that the Nationalist Party is against changing the Local Plans if these changes harm the environment or residents. The Labour government is amending the Local Plans to accommodate a development proposal at…
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Does anyone remember the interview where the Supreme Leader said he couldn’t change the local plans because they were introduced by a previous Nationalist administration?
I remember very well when Prime Minister Robert Abela was asked about excessive construction development and he excused this by saying that the Labour government can’t change the local plans because they were introduced years ago by a Nationalist administration, and changing them again would cause injustice. Apparently, this warped logic does not apply when…
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Changing local plans to accommodate more destruction
Prime Minister Robert Abela has always stated that amending the local plans is legally impossible apart from being, in principle, an injustice in itself. This is fundamentally not true because commonly, European law and even Maltese constitutional law give the right for planning and developing decisions to the state and not the property owner. Furthermore,…
