Architects stuck as legal notice is not yet approved

A new legal notice regulating development notification orders that should have been approved earlier this week is still pending, it has emerged, leaving architects in the dark.
Last week, Times of Malta reported that the recently set up Planning Authority was turning away architects filing DNO submissions as no applications could be accepted until the new legal notice is approved. A spokesman for the authority said this should have happened this week.
While a legal notice including the introduction of a “new type of planning application, which will sit alongside the familiar full development application and the DNO” came into force last week, the one regulating DNOs has yet to be approved.

The new planning application is known as ‘summary procedures’ and incorporates development types which have been removed from the DNO, development works which do not require external consultations and works which are easily assessed by existing planning policies.
According to the authority spokesman, the new legal notice would serve to regulate a smaller number of DNO classes, yet no information on when this will come into force is yet available.
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