One of Malta’s largest shopping malls could take up the area of over two football pitches at 16,000sq.m on an undeveloped field in Għaxaq and an adjacent scrapyard.
The site is owned by Joe Cassar’s Trihills Heavy Industry Ltd, and is in the process of being acquired by Alex Zammit’s Southpark Ltd.
The Planning Authority is currently processing another application for an even larger retail hub, on a 35,000sq.m industrial site owned by Schembri Barbros Ltd, which presently includes a Lidl supermarket just 300m way from the Trihills scrapyard.
The latter application comes with a long history of sanctioned illegalities, and is currently suspended.