ENGOs Call on Minister of Environment to Suspend Building Site Excavation
ENGOs Flimkien għal Ambjent Aħjar, Graffitti, Friends of the Earth (Malta), Ramblers Association, Isles of the Left, Malta Youth in Agriculture Foundation, the Noise Abatement Society Malta, Futur Ambjent Wieħed, Nature Trust Malta and Birdlife...
Deceitful Scheduling of Villa Barbaro
Last week the Planning Authority announced with much fanfare, the extension of the buffer zone around Villa Barbaro, thought to be the oldest palazzo in the South. It was only when one read the small print that the truth came out: far from...
eNGOs, Residents and PA Board rebuff Tigne Point in Naxxar
eNGOs Graffitti and FAA have participated in the Planning Authority hearing re the 10-storey mega-project applied for just 70m away from the scheduled Palazzo Parisio and the Naxxar urban conservation area, on the parking area of the former...
Environment is Leading Concern in Constitutional Reform
Following publication of the results of the public consultation on Constitutional Reform, published on Monday, it results that 25% of respondents were gravely concerned about the Malta Constitution’s lack of protection for our islands’ natural...
FAA, Residents, Mayor, oppose St Julian’s Abusive Development
Flimkien għal Ambjent Aħjar together with St Julian’s residents and Mayor have roundly condemned the application for a massive project comprising some 57 apartments, shops and offices on a site in between St Elias Street and B’Kara...
Getting away with murder. Who’s next?
Magistrate Claire Stafrace Zammit’s inquiry into the Hamrun building collapse leading to Miriam Pace’s death, is a crushing indictment of the state of the Maltese construction industry over the last 20 years, when developers have literally been...
Manoel Island Victory
Flimkien għal Ambjent Aħjar and the Inħobbu l-Gżira group welcome the PA appeals tribunal’s decision that MIDI is to prepare a new Environment Impact Assessment re its Manoel Island project due to the conflict of interest of one of...
MANOEL ISLAND PRESS CONFERENCE
In June 2020 the Environment and Planning Review Tribunal (EPRT) upheld an appeal by Flimkien għal Ambjent Aħjar against Outline Development Permit PA 9407/17 for the development of Manoel Island. This was on the grounds that one of the...
FAA CALLS FOR PROTECTION OF GOZO’S HERITAGE AND QUALITY OF LIFE
Flimkien għal Ambjent Aħjar welcomes the Planning Authority’s decision to refuse the application for a five-storey plus penthouse block of apartments in the Xagħra Urban Conservation Area, within the 50m buffer zone of a Grade 1 scheduled...
MIZIEP AND AHRAX – pillage of public land
Flimkien għal Ambjent Aħja (FAA), a member of the ‘Spazji Miftuħa’ coalition, strenuously condemns the government gifting il-Miżieb and l-Aħrax tal-Mellieha, to the hunters’ federation, Federazzjoni Kaccaturi Nassaba...