In a hearing held this morning the MEPA appeals board allowed the go ahead for a permit to build 28 apartments and garages on the side of Wied il-Ghasel, Mosta, after rejecting an appeal that had been made a group of NGOs.
The NGOs objection was made on the grounds that “the site was included in the development zone map of the Local Plans, but is designated as a listed Ecological Conservation Site CG 22 in the Mosta Constraints map MOM 7.” For this reason the development was objected to by Nature Trust Malta and hotly contested by Harsien Patrimonju Mosti, Flimkien ghal Ambjent Ahjar and Ramlbers Association, Malta.
A petition that HPM organised and recently presented to the President of Malta drew a record number of 24,000 signatures.