Developer Anglu Xuereb believes the government should bypass the Malta Environment and Planning Authority and decide once and for all on the location of a golf course.
He makes the statement as Mepa confirms that a five-man team has been set up to earmark a number of locations that could be used as golf courses in Malta and Gozo, as requested by Prime Minister Lawrence Gonzi.
Two weeks on, Mr Xuereb is still irked by Mepa's decision to give the thumbs down to a golf course proposal on land near the Verdala hotel in Rabat.
"In this country we love beating about the bush. Why should we keep drawing up report upon report, costing thousands of liri, and then wait years for a decision? The government is ultimately the land owner and it should therefore be the government to decide about this golf course issue," Mr Xuereb told The Times.
He said he had still not received an official reply in writing from Mepa to confirm that his application for an 18-hole golf course had been turned down. However, he made it clear that he intended to appeal the decision, even though he was aware that his chances of success are bleak.
"The more I think about it, the more I realise that my golf course application was dealt with in a farcical manner. I had sound arguments all the way - but I was ignored."
The AX Holdings chairman is still undecided whether to reapply for a golf course in any other alternative site but he maintained he still believed Verdala was the best site for a golf course.
Still, he said, it was high time for the government to be more proactive on the matter. He believes that when major applications are presented, Mepa should provide the technical groundwork, a report should be drawn up by experts in the field, but it should then leave it up to the ministerial Cabinet to hand down a decision.
"With all due respect, neither Mepa nor its board has any expertise in golf. I provided them with 15 experts who drew up a 3,000-page environment impact assessment and who ultimately recommended that the advantages outweighed the disadvantages."
As things turned out, Mepa's Planning Directorate recommended a refusal to the project, among others, on the grounds that the proposal was located within an area of agricultural value and that the remodification of the site would affect the water supplies, the soil profile and the landscape within the site.
Mr Xuereb said any alternative site proposed by Mepa would not fit the Structure Plan and issues like the environment and ownership would always be brought into question. Size would always be a major issue as a golf course required a minimum 55 hectares.
Mepa spokesman Silvana Debono said a team made up of officials from the authority's environment protection, development control, and forward planning directorates would be presenting its recommendations to the government on alternative locations for a golf course by the end of October - as requested by the Prime Minister.
"Such sites would still need to go through the normal evaluation process," she said.