Paceville master plan: 'another sham process'

The draft Paceville master plan is another sham process fuelled by greed and should be withdrawn immediately, Din l-Art Ħelwa said.
A master plan should primarily address the needs of the entire community for the area, harmonising them into one vision and also providing a positive effect on the rest of the country, the NGO said in a statement.
While it favoured the development of master plans, the draft master plan for Paceville had failed this basic test.
“Din l-Art Ħelwa strongly objects to the process followed in the development of this draft master plan. Transparency was totally absent. What is supposed to be a ‘public interest’ process was apparently used to further direct financial interests.
“The submissions of nine developers were taken on board behind closed doors at the earliest stage of the drafting process while the interests of all the other stakeholders were ignored,” it said.

The organisation said that not only were the needs of the community and the common good not taken into account but the property of others was used as a ‘free’ resource to facilitate the nine developments. The potential for regeneration of the streets and existing buildings of the area was...