Mosta underground car park proposal stalls

Updated 6.50pm - Added PN statement An underground parking lot by the Mosta church may never see the light of day as the town's local council yesterday approved a motion against the project, Labour Party councillors announced this afternoon. Addressing a press conference at the car park by the Mosta Dome, Labour Party councillor Alex Muscat said that current mayor Ivan Bartolo was insisting on going against the position taken by the council led by the previous mayor Edwin Vassallo.Mr Muscat insisted that while for years the council had called on the government to address the parking issue at the busy locality, for reasons the new mayor has yet to divulge, the PN councillors were not backing the project. In a subsequent statement, the Nationalist Party said that it was against the project because it risked damaging the Mosta church.  "Having a car park that touches the church - with all the risks to the church this could entail - is not the right one," the party said in a statement.  The PN said that it was all for having an underground car park provided it did not touch the church, and that it had identified two other sites in Mosta which could be used.  READ: Mosta councillors...