Sliema residents say 'no' to Tignè hotel conversion plans

Rita Camilleri

Sep 30th 2009, 09:17

@dmifsud & p.mizzi- sorry but I am a Sliemiza born and bred and NO the house I lived in was not ours but bil kera, so dont go blaming it on the Sliemizi who sold their houses for a good profit, nearly none of the houses there were owned by us but people OUTSIDE of Sliema, and when my parents died and I got married it went back to its owners - so NO its not the Sliemzi's fault that Sliema has been turned into a pit !!!

Joe Morana

Sep 29th 2009, 18:34

@ P Mizzi
Dear mr Mizzi
Do you want to put your money where your mouth is? Are you reallly willing to buy my property allowing me to make a very handsome profit?

Thank you very much Mr Mizzi I am tempted to oblige. You can get my telephone number and address from the telephone directory. You have convinced me to leave the SliemaMetrolplis to you and your likes and move to Dingli etc.

P Mizzi

Sep 29th 2009, 17:57

As if the "hotel or no hotel" issue is now going to make any difference at this stage. Sliema is a cosmopolitan modern town that has been growing on itself to accommodate all the people that wanted to live in it. That's just the way it is. Dingli, Ghaxaq, Gudja or wherever, aren't like that because they're just not Sliema are they?

Those lamenting the old Sliema, and lambasting the developers for developing it so much, should realize that the developers came there because it was such an attractive location to start off with. Thanks to them, the value of their own properties multiplied exponentially over the years. If they're not happy now, perhaps they should sell up at a very handsome profit and move to Dingli or somewhere else where it's more pristine, and leave Sliema to become the metropolis it is.

At least thanks to developers like Midi and Gap, they will have their forts refurbished, protected and somehow reused by future generations. That's unlike what happened to majestic Fort St Angelo which was left to deteriorate, and many other examples.

smifsud

Sep 29th 2009, 17:56

this is absoult madness of what has happened to Malta ...this picture says it all ...Malta is FINISHED !!!.....overpopulated ....over carlated ....everything is over inflated except Pastizzi and Hobz biz zejt and these foods are under threat as well ...why are we letting this happen to our island ,.,,,,,what a shame shame and more shame .....im crying again ....

anthony borg

Sep 29th 2009, 16:11

Possibli l-arkitetti Maltin hekk biss jafu jiddisinjaw? Fejn hi l-Istetika li suppost taghlmu l-Universita'?

d mifsud

Sep 29th 2009, 15:37

So tigne , midi, gap have ruined sliema ? You must be joking. The picture on today’s Times centre pages tells a different story. Look closely, there isn’t a single road in sliema where some slimiz hasn’t dropped his old house and built a, generally ghastly, block of flats –with little or no planning, parking or attractions to speak of. In some roads there isn’t even one old town house left and now, after 20 years of unplanned and self inflicted mess, the only projects in the area which have some form of public open space, proper parking facilities and amenities are to blame? I don’t think so. Sorry Sliema residents but as the saying goes 'as you make your bed, so you must lie on it.'

Rita Camilleri

Sep 29th 2009, 15:29

@Sandra Debono....we must be the same age !!!!! yes cause Lego is more colourful !!!! but these still look horrible, and that is the area where I grew up, l-ghalqa tal fatiti, it tarag it twil, il galletta, but my best memory of Tigne is pinching colourful tennis balls from the English families living there .... unfortunately now they no longer exist, they haunts have now been taken over by Betta Builda !!!!!!

M Cordina

Sep 29th 2009, 14:30

That picture says it all "Greed', and people with more money than sense,or style!

sandra debono

Sep 29th 2009, 14:18

@ R. Camilleri

....just my comments whenever this "sight" disturbs my vista...."just like my betta builda" thats what I used to call it as a child.....unfortunately I get very few people who know what I'm talking about when I say this.....now I've found someone who does :) perhaps if it resembled lego it would look better who knows!!!!

lgalea

Sep 29th 2009, 14:13

What a nice lot of concrete pigeon-holes.

Chris Ebejer

Sep 29th 2009, 13:08

Ladies & Gentleman we proudly present you, the wonders of Maltese architecture of the 21 Century!

adrian gatt

Sep 29th 2009, 12:55

Those residents who wish to know more about Sliema Residents Association pls send an email to sliemaresidentsa@gmail.com or by post to SRA PO Box 66 Sliema. An AGM will be held on Thursday 22nd October at 7:30pm at Salesians Oratory infront of St Patrick's.
See you there.

A. Zahra

Sep 29th 2009, 11:48

I fully support the SLC and the SRA in their opposition to the developers' request, but knowing the developers and the government party's weakness in standing up to its financiers, as the developers are, it will cave in to their demand. So very sad and yet so true.

R. Camilleri

Sep 29th 2009, 10:53

this picture reminds me of when, a long long time ago, I had a Beta Build kit (similar to Lego) and that was I was only capable of building, boxes on top of each other !!!! - pigeon coops!!

C A Camilleri

Sep 29th 2009, 10:12

This picture reminds me of Tetris. Luxury living ....yes say that agian!