Zminijietna – Voice of the Left stated that, “the Government should do more to protect the countryside. Thus, Zminijietna is calling upon the Government to scrap the rural development policy that entered in vigour in 2014.”

Zminijietna added, “that such policy is opening the road for further development in outside development zone areas, under the excuse of redevelopment of new dwellings, instead of dilapidated structures and ruins, if the applicant can prove that the buildings were used as dwellings before 1978.”

On the other hand, Zminijietna said that it applauds the determination of both Swieqi and San Gwann Local Councils to protect Wied Ghomor, a green lung between Swieqi and San Gwann, that is under siege from an unprecedented barrage of applications for new developments.

Photograph by Alain Salvary

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