Residents say development would change Sliema character

James Rickard

Jan 21st 2010, 12:51

Goodmorning Sliema Residents. Please Get Real.Those days are Long Gone!

Face the Reality. You don't own Sliema. Sliema Belongs to the people who pay for it! and especially to those people from Gozo, if you don't like it go back to Gozo!



Lots of love from a fellow Sliema Resident

James Rickard

Jan 20th 2010, 10:10

@ Nick Borg

I Fully Agree with Nick Borg's comment. Its about time the Sliema People put their hand in their pocket and compensate a fellow Sliema resident.

Nick Borg

Jan 19th 2010, 15:34

To all those complaining that the removal of the gardens would remove the lung around them....

If you object to the removal of the gardens and require the air provided by them, are you prepared to compensate the owners for th loss they will incur by losing their RIGHT to develop their property in the same way that those who developed around them benefited???

So just because the house next door developed and has made a nice profit and has a nice view over the gardens and doesnt want anyone to ruin the resale value of their nice apartment, they have the right to deny the property next to them who has the same rights, their right to develop too?

If they want to preserve the gardens pay the owners compensation.

That would be fair would it not?

C.Busuttil

Jan 17th 2010, 22:56

@P. Zammit

Jien Slimiz ta' vera ghalhekk ghazilt nikteb bil-malti u nixtieq nghidlek li bhala slimiz ghax nofs is-slimizi mhux kollha tal-pepe, izjed kollu zejjed, X'fadal li tkissru f'Tas-Sliema halluh il-ftit li fadal minn dik li kienet l-isbah belt f'pajjizna saret monstru. Mhux biss saret monstru imma ftit ftit qed titlef dak il-karattru taghha, nahseb fi ftit snin ikun hawn aktar barranin milli maltin jghixu fiha. Kienet Belt mimlija hajja belt dinamika daqt tispicca bhal Belt valletta, jigifiri mejta.
Is-slimizi ghandhom dritt jaraw li l-kwalita tal-hajja tal-belt taghna ma tibqax sejra lura mela mhux cittadini bhal haddiehor.

P.Zammit

Jan 17th 2010, 21:26

@A.Zahra/Attard



Mela - I am in no way connected to the developer, I am not a developer, I dont care about you having to put up with development, because at the end of the day all Malta does, you are not special, demi-God citizens of Malta.



I also think you are egoistic. First you ruin the environment in Sliema with high rise buildings etc.. and now you expect others not have the same chance you had build in sliema, why?

You expect to dictate what goes on in sliema, like you purchased the whole town rather than just your 80X40 jungle like, ugly looking ghetto street like flatlet in some of inner streets which barely let sun shine on the houses at the back.

Why do you have right to build other properties and pollute other areas of Malta and we don't have a right to do so in Sliema? Cheap!

A. Zahra

Jan 17th 2010, 18:46

@P. Zammit
What a load of rubbish. Are you in any way connected with the developer?

C.ZARB

Jan 17th 2010, 18:31

Meanwhile in Marsa there are people who are currently complaining about drainage overflowing in certain streets. That's just one of the problems Marsa has to face. There is the power station, the black dust, traffic pollution, Albert Town's problem and the impact of having an open center in their own backyard garden. Strangely enough this esteemed paper has considered more fit to inform us of another moan coming from Sliema then to investigate and inform the general public of the real problems people in places like Marsa are facing every day.

PS I am not from Marsa

Joe Morana

Jan 17th 2010, 18:16

Apparently Mr Zammit is conviently discarding:
a)MEPA's own Norther Harbours Local Plan which states that Sliema is overdeveloped
b) MEPA's own air quality monitoring reports which state that air polltion levels in Sliema exceed the EU safety levels
c) ADT's assertion that the Sliema main road infrastructure is overloaded beyond their capacity
d) A traffic management report commissioned by a private developer which confirms ADT's report on inadequate road infrastructure
e) ADT's assertion that more developoment in Sliema will precipitate the already precarious Sliema traffic problems.
But perhaps Mr Zammit is so happy to live in these adverse conditions. Well, if he is , many Sliema residents are not .
Alternatively he may have vested interests in the unsustainabel development of Sliema

A Attard

Jan 17th 2010, 17:24

P Zammit: Why don't you base your comments strictly on the merits of the SRA objections rather than using sceptical and irrelevant blah blah blah in order to deflect from the real issues? Isn't it because the SRA is raising extremely legitimate issues to which you have no valid answer?

Gaby Micallef Trigona

Jan 17th 2010, 15:14

I have been living abroad since 1975, so when I left malta Sliema was the the elegnt genteel town one could almost compare to Lugano.
We can all see how this is no longer the case.
Greed for money, terribly ugly buildings poorly designed both inside and outside, have spoilt it all.
PLEASE please save the few remaining remnants...not so much for us...but for our children and their children.
I notice Sliema is a little uglier each time I come to Malta.Don't make it uglie rstill.
AND...we need air and gardens and fewer people living in Sliema...not more flats and more people!

P.Zammit

Jan 17th 2010, 14:33

Here we go again, sliema residents complain again. I've said this many times, especially when they expected (and still do) to have reserved parking spaces for them, that this town is slowly becoming a republic.

I wonder how many from the SRA come from ugly looking flats that stole the character of Sliema in the first place. Speaking of people in glass houses.

Developers please note - any new development must now get approval from MEPA and SRA's first minister of the republic of Sliema-Land.

Oh, then don't go infringe on their right to develop their property in other locals (Gozo?) or dare fine them for having parked in other (ridiculous) parking schemes in other small republics of Malta (Gozo?).

SRA's next meeting Agenda
(1) Sole use of sliema front benches & beaches
(2) Tax car drive through on sliema roads by non residents
(3) Absolutely no more development - the right to develop, stoped with our houses
(4) No boat to ship at least 12 miles close to sliema coast
(5) Air traffic must never pass over any part of sliema
(6) Pollution, we do in other localities - ok - others in ours - no

ct busuttil

Jan 17th 2010, 14:32

The gardens at the back of the houses mentioned are the only significant source of fresh air and light to the properties that exist presently, especially those on lower ground. In fact they depend on these gardens. If development gets the go-ahead, we may as well scrap the laws that are meant to protect inner core village life and just allow everyone to go beserk. At the very least, limit the height of new developments as they did in the past to allow neighbouring rooftops to enjoy a few hours of sunshine and not none at all as is happening nowadays.