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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 […]

In the instant case, applicant had his planning application entitled “To sanction agricultural room and reservoir” turned down by the Planning Commission. The room in question, which was located in a small field in the limits of Birzebbuga, occupied a floor area of circa 30sq.m. To justify the decision, the Commission highlighted the following reasons: The […]

In the first instance case, applicant sought permission to construct two additional residential floors on an existing multi storey complex situated in Triq in-Naxxar, San Gwann. The said application was turned down by the Planning Commission due to the fact that a 50cm screening wall was being provided at topmost level (instead of the statutory […]