Flimkien ghal Ambjent Ahjar is strongly objecting to a deliberate undertaking to construct workplaces, assembly rooms, a store and restaurant on thepublic open house/highway between Gzira Gardens and the yacht marina quay.
This violates the want for open areas, by no means extra evident than within the post-pandemic interval, depriving the general public of round 585sq m, or half a tumolo of public land for the constructing and a big out of doors catering that can’t be justified in any method, the FAA stated in a press release.
The event website is a part of the inexperienced lung of historic Gzira Gardens. Furthermore the location is a part of the Valletta Fortifications Space of Excessive Panorama Worth and the construction will block views of the Valletta UNESCO World Heritage Web site.
Transport Malta, the applicant, ought to be taking care of the public’s transport wants, and never making use of for the development of eating places for the advantage of the few, the FAA stated. Tright here is completely no want for extra eating places within the space, as dozens of eating places line the highway from Gzira to Sliema, with two within the backyard itself. If workplaces are wanted, rental house is obtainable throughout the road, or a floating workplace like that of the adjoining marina can be utilized. If this allow is granted, it would result in different workplaces and eating places blocking the Ta’ Xbiex shoreline.
The Native Plan designated this as a Public Open House, not a developable space. This undertaking will scale back the much-used promenade linking Sliema to Gzira, Ta’ Xbiex and Msida to a slender 2m pathway, whereas two–method visitors might be funnelled right into a 3m bottleneck. The design eliminates about 70 automobile areas, thereby exacerbating an already determined parking state of affairs on Ta’Xbiex Seafront the place there’s an acute scarcity of parking areas for residents, berth holders to 2 marinas, workplace employees and purchasers in each Ta’ Xbiex and Gzira.
Uncared for Gzira Gardens ought to be the principle focus of such an software, but there is no such thing as a indication of the promised improve in phrases of format, planted areas or bushes to be affected.
Flimkien għal Ambjent Aħjar urged Ta’ Xbiex an Gzira Native Councils in addition to most people to name for this software to be refused, as open public areas are scarce within the space and shouldn’t be constructed up and taken over for business functions. Green areas are to be protected and enhanced for our high quality of life, not constructed upon, the NGO stated.
