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Updated 2.25pm
Infrastructure Malta wants to build a roundabout that threatens arable land and the destruction of a 500-year-old reservoir at Burmarrad so as to benefit a supermarket developer, Moviment Graffitti claimed on Saturday.
Meant to serve as a “traffic-calming measure”, the roundabout will be built on the main road at the crossroads with Triq is-Sardin, next to a proposed Bonnici Brothers supermarket which will be on a site outside the development zone, the lobby group said.
The supermarket s application was submitted in 2018, however it was suspended for two years until the roadworks were announced, the NGO said.
According to Moviment Graffitti, Bonnici Brothers also have other plans for the area, with a planning control application that would allow for several residential blocks if the permit goes through.
Nearly 5,000 objections have been filed against the proposed Burmarrad roundabout that threatens arable land and the destruction of a 500-year-old reservoir farmers in the area depend on.
The growing number of objectors was welcomed by Moviment Graffitti, which described the roundabout as “unnecessary”, claiming it would ruin agricultural land and the historical reservoir, together with a watercourse that sustains farming in the wider area.
Infrastructure Malta’s second phase of the Burmarrad junction project – serving as a “traffic-calming measure” – includes the construction of the new roundabout at the crossroads with Triq is-Sardin, next to a proposed Bonnici Brothers ODZ supermarket.