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The Planning Authority has approved an eight-storey hotel in Mellieħa, despite the local council’s objections that the proposal breached the area’s height limitation.The plans, by J. Portelli Projects, include 120 residential units, shops, a hotel, underGreen light for Mellieħa eight-storey hotel, despite objections
The Planning Authority has approved an eight-storey hotel in Mellieħa, despite the local council’s objections that the proposal breached the area’s height limitation.The plans, by J. Portelli Projects, include 120 residential units, shops, a hotel, underground parking and garages on a vacant 3,600 square metre plot close to the Valyou supermarket, the site formerly occupied by the Belleview restaurant.The plan had been recommended for refusal due to planning policy limiting buildings in the area to just three floors, although hotels could benefit from an adjustment policy allowing an extra two floors above that.Nevertheless, at a hearing earlier this month, the PA board indicated that it was ready to approve the application on the basis of a separate flexibility policy. The decision was formalised on Thursday by a vote of nine to four, with those against being board chairman Vince Cassar, Environment and Resources Authority (ERA) chairman Victor Axiak, NGO representative Annick Bonello and Mellieħa mayor John Buttigieg.The local council, which had long sought to use the formerly government-owned land for community facilities, had already objected to the project, describing it as... Read more