How could they do this to Kitten from Malta? You trust these Laburisti, become one of them, and the next thing you know, they’re shafting you.
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November 1, 2013 at 3:51pm
The MEPA has just approved the construction of a large complex including a car park, shops, offices and flats in the street where Kenneth Zammit Tabona lives.
That’s so not on.
Now he really must be given a grace-and-favour residence in St John’s Square, Valletta.
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http://www.timesofmalta.com/articles/view/20131031/local/spinola-car-park-approved.492727#.UnO_gFMueV5
He will give us some other memorable quote like when he said ‘Let’s give Jason Micallef a chance, first’.
Actually this project is a good design rather than having a horrible multi storey car park above ground.
What is certainly scandalous is the Mistra project. Having said that, the Outline Development permit was issued in 2008. Was it under George Pullicinos watch?
[Daphne – I remember the details fairly well, Freedom 5. It’s the main reason the Montebello brothers went bankrupt. They had bought the Mistra site and developed the plans for it. On the basis of the outline development permit they rather riskily began promoting and selling the project and engaged Carmen Camilleri Ciantar (living with JPO at the time, now married to him) to market it. They were promoting it out of that shop/office on Tower Road (Ferries side) next to Mil Ideas. When the permit failed to come through, their projections/loans/whatever went haywire and that was that. Most of their shares in Gemxija were bought by the Kuwait investor who had been in partnership with them, more or less buying them out. Carmen went to work for Yellow Pages.]
Not really. It’s the usual hanging gardens cliche’ which won’t materialise. It seems architects prefer to camouflage renderings with planters to get something approved.
And the carpark’s exit’s right on the main ramp leading up to Regional Road.
Jozef, I love you.
All the real estate “development” (in normal language we say “construction”) projects over the last ten years have been a series of artists’ renderings of lush, green, bleeding-edge Palm Island futuristic utopias, peopled by six-foot, broad-shouldered male models and women with pincushion bums.
In reality they’re all fcvking concrete deserts surrounded by the debris of unfinished extensions, and all the lush vegetation has wilted and turned to dust under the relentless Maltese sun. And I wouldn’t call John Dalli a male model.
Why do the people of Malta have to be lumped with these issues just because a group of idiots did the usual rotten thing, thinking that it will work out like it always does, only to be left with nothing at the end of it?
Is bad business sense so common in Malta that people cannot possibly get their heads around why things actually go wrong?
Some of those individuals who voted Labour and yet think of themselves as ‘environmentalists’ haven’t a clue. Kenneth for one should be ashamed of himself.
They live in a ‘piccolo mondo’ of their own.
Almeno il mondo è una sfera. La loro testa è soltanto un cubo di latta arruginita.
Kitten took refuge on Net TV in DotNet yesterday evening.
Did he really? Ara vera skifuz.
Didn’t Astrid Vella, the kitten, and his uncle organize a protest against this development a few months before the election?
Was it bad then because the evilPN was in power and is it OK now just because they have a fetish for them?
Yes.
How times change.
Why does it have to be so blatantly obvious that so many developers got behind the PL not because of their policies or because of the need for a change, but purely because they wanted money through their development projects.
The PN government was right not to allow any of these things. Believe it or not our constitution explicitly says that the government will protect the environment, landscape and historic and artistic patrimony.
(See here: https://www.constituteproject.org/#/search )
“9 SAFEGUARDING OF LANDSCAPE AND HISTORICAL AND ARTISTIC PATRIMONY
The State shall safeguard the landscape and the historical and artistic patrimony of the Nation.”
But I guess these people thought that the only possible reason they were refused was because the PN are greedy and want everything for themselves.God bless, some people are so entrenched in rotten and self-centredness that they can’t possibly fathom anything that is motivated by duty, care or selflessness.
True, but the developers are part of the landscape.
Now let’s do some maths: close to 1,000 new properties added to the market (with this development and Mistra) in just one month. Continuing to approve developments at this rate must not be good news for existing property prices.
Perhaps the MHRA will lend their econometric model to the Developers Association to see what effect this increase in stock will have on the price of existing properties. I doubt if it will behave in the same way as the model worked for the reduction in VAT on hotels namely having an overall positive effect.
http://www.timesofmalta.com/articles/view/20131101/local/residents-disappointed-at-car-parks-approval.492892#.UnQO9FMueV4
Astrid was alerted to other projects by the same architect that were highly irregular, and even dangerous, and that changed details furtively as and when brought before a board.
This particular architect gets away with a whole lot of irregularities. Not one objection gets through.