Sliema residents are insisting the planning authority should turn down applications for an 11-floor structure in Gżira fearing it would turn the area into “an airless prison”.

Two applications to build about 100 apartments are recommended for approval and will be discussed today during a meeting at the Malta Environment and Planning Authority’s board room in Floriana.

The project will replace the last long stretch of low-lying buildings where Forestals used to have their offices and showrooms along the Gżira-Sliema strand.

This extends the Charella Home for the Elderly to the junction of Sacro Cuor Street.

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