A letter sent by Front Harsien ODZ to the Prime Minister, the Archbishop, the planning authority chairman and the Dominican Provincial on August 8 for a win-win solution to the Ghaxaq ODZ issue to be found remained unanswered, the front said.

The front said that in its letter it appealed for the applicants of the proposed development at Ghaxaq to withdraw the pending application and that concurrently, the government and the authority would commit to identify alternative sites for the college.

Such sites, it said, should not be on ODZ land but could include brownfield sites, sites previously used by the government for purposes such as education, and other government-owned land.

Front Harsien ODZ expressed its disappointment that none of the four had accepted its invitation for a solution based on goodwill and mutual respect for an adequate site to be found for St Albert College instead of the current one in Valletta and the proposed one in Ghaxaq.

In a statement in June, the provincial had stated that the Province was ready to accept realistic offers from the government, possibly in the southern part of Malta.

“When the Zonqor issue emerged, there was also much furor about the Ghaxaq issue. Front Harsien ODZ is actively committed to safeguard ODZ land from development in both cases, as well as in other similar cases," it said.