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A planned five-storey development in a area with a strict two-floor local plan height limitation is due to be considered for by the Malta Environment and Planning Authority’s Development Control Committee tomorrow.
The Flimkien għal Ambjent Aħjar said in a statement this morning that the application is for a block of flats in Windsor Terrace, Sliema.
It had came as a great shock when Mepa’s DCC granted the developers of this site an outline permit to build five floors.
“This would create illegal high party walls on either side, as the flats are to be built right in the middle of a row of seven identical, fine old two-storey Sliema townhouses. This streetscape had been protected, however the Mepa protection indicator had mysteriously disappeared around the time that this application was submitted.”
FAA said it has been calling for the rescinding of this outline permit since the DCC had overturned the case officer’s recommendation to refuse the permit without giving justification for such a reversal according to planning regulations.
It asked how Mepa could refuse others’ permits on the grounds of washrooms that were a few feet too large, then grant a such an outrageous permit for a five-floor block of flats in a two-storey, supposedly protected, urban conservation area.
“The granting of a full permit tomorrow would certainly undermine all Mepa’s claims of a new transparency and a level playing field for all,” FAA said.

http://www.timesofmalta.com/articles/view/20081112/local/faa-calls-on-mepa-to-refuse-permit-for-windsor-terrace-development

Flimkien ghal Ambjent Ahjar (FAA)
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