This Development Brief aims to ensure that the natural and historical resources forming part of the coastal foreshore are well integrated with the additional facilities being proposed as part of the overall development. The Brief is to be guided by the following objectives:

To promote the natural features of the coastal environment and increase their appreciation, while safeguarding views and view points across the coastal foreshore and the open sea.

To improve public access to the foreshore and rocky beach area, while ensuring that bathing areas are protected from unsightly development.

To accommodate a number of small-scale leisure facilities that would further diversify the current product offer and complement the existing urban fabric in the predominantly residential, tourism accommodation and catering quarters around Qawra and Bugibba.

To ensure that the proposed aquarium development does not create any risks to the Maltese marine environment through the introduction of alien species into the local marine environment.

To ensure that the proposed marine aquarium facilitates the development of research programmes and facilities on the marine environment in collaboration with other agencies.

Details of the development brief can be found on www.mepa.org.mt