The Mepa Board has approved planning permission for a landscaping scheme at Ta’ Barkat, limits of Xghajra.

The landscaping will  improve the adverse visual impact created by the South Sewage Treatment Plant.

The landscaping works which will be carried out over a footprint of 6775 square metres and will include the construction of terraced parcels forming an embankment which will be divided by rubble walls.

As part of the scheme over 190 trees will be planted which include Znuber, Balluta, Harruba, Randa, Sigra ta’ l-Gharghar, Zebbug, and is-sigra ta’ Guda.

Ta Barkat with landscaping