This particular architect gets away with a whole lot of irregularities. Not one objection gets through.

True, but the developers are part of the landscape.

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.

Almeno il mondo è una sfera. La loro testa è soltanto un cubo di latta arruginita.

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?

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.

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.

Did he really? Ara vera skifuz.

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.