There was a 26.5% increase in building permits for new dwellings in Gozo during the fourth quarter of last year with 406 dwellings compared to the same period last year, when the number was 321, the National Statistics Office said today.

Victoria, Gozo, had the second highest number of approved new dwellings on the Maltese Islands at 188.

Following Victoria, other Gozo localities were Xewkija with 37 approved, Nadur 35, Zebbug and Xaghra both at 29, Fontana 22 and Sannat 21.

These figures are quoted from the top 35 localities across the islands. Marsaskala ha the highest number of approved dwellings with 203.

On a national basis, during the last quarter of 2022, 357 building permits for a total of 2,064 new dwellings were approved, the NSO said. Building permits are authorisations to initiate new building projects.

The number of approved new dwellings increased by 33.2% when compared to the same quarter of the previous year. Dwellings approved in Malta increased by 35.0%.

The majority of new dwellings approved during the last quarter of 2022 were apartments (1,417), followed by penthouses (343), maisonettes (201), terraced houses (94) and other residential units (9). Apartments accounted for 68.7 per cent of the total number of approved new dwellings.

The NSO said that the objective of these statistics is to indicate the future development of construction activity in terms of the number of approved new dwellings.

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