Planning application for Gozo hospital taken off public database
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An “incomplete” application for a master plan covering the building of a new hospital in Gozo and the refurbishment of the existing one no longer appears on the Planning Authority public database, the Times of Malta has learnt. According to the controversPlanning application for Gozo hospital taken off public database
An “incomplete” application for a master plan covering the building of a new hospital in Gozo and the refurbishment of the existing one no longer appears on the Planning Authority public database, the Times of Malta has learnt. According to the controversial public private partnership agreement signed by the government in 2015, Steward Health Care had to complete the building of a new hospital by May 2018 and the refurbishment of the current one, four months later. However, milestones set in the deal have still to be reached and development plans on the projected works still in an embryonic stage. Confirming the delays in the delivery of the projects, the planning watchdog recently removed from its public database all details of the application, which it considers to still be incomplete. “The Gozo hospitals plan is not yet considered an application in that it is related to a screening request,” a Planning Authority spokesman said. “If/once the applicant (Steward) completes the application as requested in the screening letter of the Planning Authority, the application will be published and made available to the public,” he added. A spokeswoman for Steward, however, disagreed. Read more