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Updated: Mepa allows development in part of old Ghaxaq villa's garden

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Villa Mekrech and garden.

(Adds FAA statement) The Mepa board this morning granted a full development permit for the building of three blocks of flats, each two storeys high, in part of the garden of Villa Mekrech in Hal Ghaxaq. The garden is one of the biggest in Malta. Mepa's Heritage Advisory Committee had requested scheduling of the property including its baroque garden in 2005 and the property was indicated in the local plans of 2006, when the villa and all its garden was designated as a protected enclave. Mepa's (then) DCC board had issued an outline permit for the flats in 2008, despite the recommendations of the Mepa directorate for refusal. The villa and its gardens were scheduled last month on the insistence of environment NGO Flimkien Għal Ambjent Aħjar, but the scheduling left out that part of the garden for which there was a development permit. During this morning's Mepa board hearing, the Mepa planning directorate said the application violated the south Malta local plan. A member of the board, Judge Vanni Bonello, expressed his regret that he would have to vote in favour of the application since it already had an outline permit. FAA representative Astrid Vella quoted the case officer report...

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