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A planning application for the placement of two free-standing billboards fronting Tal-Balal Road was turned down by the Planning Commission on the following two grounds: The location in question consisted of a piece of land, previously a field, turned into a parking area without prior authorisation. In principle, the illegal development had to be removed […]

Applicant had his planning application to relocate a fuel distribution depot, currently operating in a habitable area, refused by the Planning Commission. Essentially, the proposed drawings showed an open yard which was proposed to be located outside the development zone of Zabbar. According to the said drawings, the yard was to be levelled with concrete and […]

Planning permission for the demolition of an existing store and the subsequent construction of a terraced house was approved by the Planning Board, despite the neighbour living next door had objected to the proposed development. The neighbour had insisted inter alia that the windows, balconies and outlets shown in the proposed plans were in breach […]

The owner of a detached villa filed a summary planning application seeking permission to mount a wooden lattice in “the backyard area”. The property in question is located within a designated villa area in Attard. The proposed designs showed a four-metre wooden lattice placed over and above an existing 2.3m masonry boundary wall separating applicant’s […]

In the instant case, the site presently consists of a typical one storey townhouse which is located within the Urban Conservation Area of Tarxien. Applicant had submitted a planning application for the construction of two floors and an overlying receded floor, further to which, applicant’s proposal was turned down by the Planning Commission. To substantiate […]

In this case, the Planning Commission had granted full development permission for the sanctioning of a rural dwelling ‘as built’ even though the Planning Directorate had argued that the floorspace at basement level went beyond the footprint of the building. The building in question is located within an area proposed for scheduling as a Level […]