Planning Authority sends Naxxar 72-apartment block back to drawing board
Board overrules Planning Directorate’s approval of project and asks developer to present new plans which are more respectful of the townscape
21 January 2021, 12:39pm
by James Debono
The Planning Authority board has sent plans for a five-storey block in Naxxar back to the drawing board after the majority expressed their concern on its impact on Naxxar’s urban conservation area.
The development proposed by Charles Camilleri consisted of a five-storey development of 72 apartments in a 3,141sq.m open field by Naxxar’s Pjazza Celsi, right by the former trade fair grounds and 150m away from the historic Palazzo Parisio.
The Planning Authority has called for plans for yet another apartment block at the edge of Naxxar’s urban conservation area to be improved to ensure a better transition from the old to the new.
The project was sent back to the drawing board after PA board members indicated that they were not happy with the current proposal, which would have seen the building of a four-storey block of 72 maisonettes, apartments and penthouses as well an underlying complex of 78 garages.
The project is earmarked for a 3,100-square-metre vacant plot at il-Gwejdja, partly facing Pjazza Celsi and surrounded by two new streets off Triq il-Markiz Scicluna.
PA: Naxxar block ‘positive transition’ for unapproved nine-storey tower
Brutish five-storey development in open field by Naxxar’s Pjazza Celsi, considered as positive development by the Planning Authority’s case officers
22 December 2020, 7:50am
by James Debono
The PA case officer claims the 5-storey complex will be a ‘transition’ between Naxxar historic centre and unapproved 9-storey tower
A brutish five-storey development of 72 apartments in an open field by Naxxar’s Pjazza Celsi, right by the former trade fair grounds, is being treated as a “positive development” by the Planning Authority’s case officers.
The development is being considered as a “positive development of the urban fabric” in a report endorsed by the PA’s planning directorate, claiming the apartment complex will be “an adequate transition” between Naxxar’s urban conservation area (UCA), and an as-yet unapproved nine-storey development adjacent to it which is stoking controv