FAA Slams Dangerous And Undemocratic Għarb Decision
ENGO FAA categorically condemns the irresponsible decision of the Planning Authority to approve yet another fireworks factory in the locality of Gharb. Several fireworks factories are already located in the Gharb Valley, the site of two devastating...
FAA Overturns Permit For Hotel In One Of Sliema’s Oldest Streets
Flimkien ghal Ambjent Ahjar (FAA) welcomes the Court’s decision to block the demolition of a two-storey house in St Mary Street, Sliema built in 1861. This application to build a narrow, eight-storey hotel on the site of a 150-year...
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...
SCH failing heritage, applying double standards
FAA alarmed by Superintence of Cultural Heritage’s consent for a proposed development along the Wignacourt aqueduct in Attard that heritage experts have warned will harm the Grade1 scheduled monument. The application for the construction of 4...
FAA appalled by PA’s and TM’s short-sighted decisions
The Santa Lucija roundabout will result in the destruction of an existing 1km stretch of mature trees and loss of agricultural land to widen traffic carriage-ways for private transit but exclude adequate bicycle lanes and pedestrianized paths. ...
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...
FAA IN BID TO BUY BACK LAND FOR THE PUBLIC
Flimkien ghal Ambjent Ahjar have applied to the Lands Authority so that as an eNGO we can actually pay/lease the land at the corner of Triq G.Henin with Triq il-Mediterran in Pembroke and retain it for public use as it is today. It is extremely sad...
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...