Developer eyes 23,000-square metre green area in Fgura
A new planning control application has set its sights on one of the last undeveloped tracts of land in Fgura for development, with preliminary plans showing five-storey blocks packed densely together. The application, PC/00024/22, was filed by developer Anton Camilleri, who is behind plans to build two high-rise towers in St George’s Bay, and architect Colin Zammit, who designed Minister Ian Borg’s controversial ODZ swimming pool as well as a large cluster development directly abutting Għargħur’s urban conservation area. The planning control application, which is used to establish zoning and building heights as well as land use, was filed on over 23,000 square metres of undeveloped land on Triq id-Dejma, Triq il-Parroċċa and Triq il-Merħba. NGO Din l-Art Ħelwa has filed an objection to the proposal, calling it a “deplorable” attempt to turn one of the last green areas in Fgura into an “over-developed maze of five-storey blocks”. The proposal, they said, would pack the site with residential and commercial buildings, with only 350 square metres of the over 23,000 available on the plot being reserved for community services. The rest of the space, they continued, would be taken up...