FAA Perseveres In Efforts To Protect Scheduled Garden
FAA PERSEVERES IN EFFORTS TO PROTECT ONE OF THE LAST SCHEDULED GARDENS IN SLIEMA Engo Flimkien Ghal Ambjent Ahjar (FAA) hailed with relief the Planning Commission’s decision to refuse the preliminary application for the development of Villa...
FAA Condemns Hotel High-Rises By Stealth
The Planning Authority is processing an application for an 11-storey hotel development along Triq Guze Howard , one of Sliema’s narrowest streets. Under the 2006 Local plans this street was only considered suitable for developments capped at 6...
Development frenzy hits Bingemma under misleading Agro-tourism guise
The development craze that has gripped Malta has now spread to the hamlet of Bingemma, once believed to be untouchable. The proposed tourist accommodation on a pristine un-spoilt tract of land, has been described by the applicant as one for 7 rooms,...
FAA DECRIES GOVERNMENT FOOT-DRAGGING OVER ENDANGERED VALLEY
ENGO FLIMKIEN GHAL AMBJENT AHJAR decried government footdragging and reluctance to award public domain status to the endangered valley of Wied Ghomor. A barrage of development applications in this ecologically sensitive area are being...
THE POWER OF PERSEVERANCE
“When we appealed the original approval of this application back in August 2016 many thought it was in vain. We went ahead anyway. We checked the documents, verified the facts and through exhaustive research proved that at almost 40 storeys....
ITS – Visual Violence and Landmark Land Despoliation
Flimkien ghal Ambjent Ahjar joins the thousands of worried residents in objecting to the db project in Pembroke. “This is a proposal of unparalleled hideousness – a monstrous and overbearing development which will consign residents to...
Townsquare Permit Revoked – A win for the people
On Wednesday the 3rd May 2018, the Townsquare application was revoked by the Planning Authority Tribunal thanks to the ongoing relentless efforts of FAA Flimkien Ghal Ambjent Ahjar, Din l-Art Helwa, Ramblers Malta, Friends of the Earth Malta and...
FAA welcomes protection of Wied Ghomor
Flimkien ghal Ambjent Ahjar welcomes the Wied Ghomor decision in favour of our natural heritage by the Environment and Planning Review Tribunal. Through this outcome the valley has been protected against irreversible harm for the foreseeable future....
Residents take on PA, calling for enforcement of planning legislation
Birkirkara residents have come together to appeal the unwarranted approval of a 5-storey apartment block on the fringes of the Birkirkara village core. Residents have had to take this fight for the regard of planning legislation to the Appeals...
Greed’s Victory…Our Loss
FAA Coordinator Astrid Vella Flimkien għal Ambjent Aħjar is in favour of the sensitive conversion and re-use of heritage buildings; however, there is a clear line between re-use and outright greed. When the authorities responsible for the...