Joseph Zammit, Santa Luċija
Uglifying a residential area
Over the past 50 years or so the locality of Santa Luċija in Malta has developed into a beautiful and popular residential area. It was all part of a very successful social project to provide better housing.
But of late, a number of houses, partly subsidised by the taxpayer, have been pulled down to be replaced by ugly blocks of flats. All this to the detriment of the locality, and with the real possibility of transforming Santa Luċija into a veritable slum area. So what has developed as part of a social project has been hijacked by land speculators, and all this with Mepa's blessing.
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Ray Sultana
Mar 22nd 2009, 14:42
Mr Zammit, unfortunately all of Malta has been hijacked by the speculators and all this with the approval of Mepa and the infamous Local Plans. Well planned neighbourhoods like Santa Lucija have been destroyed for the sake of greed.
It is completely beyond me how rows of houses of equal height and of the same architectural style have been allowed to be decimated with apartment blocks in their midst.
It is absolutely shameful how we have managed to turn 'din l-art helwa' into one big dump with probably some of the ugliest (empty) buildings in the world.
It is high time that Mepa stops the destruction and amends the Local Plans to safeguard what has not already been ruined.