The Planning Authority will be appealing at the Court of Appeal four decisions taken on Thursday by the Environment and Planning Review Tribunal (EPRT).

The four cases concern the enforcement notices issued by the authority against the owners of the former Mistra Village Holiday Complex in Xemxija and the former Jerma Palace Hotel, the refusal of planning permissions for the development of a tourist village at Ħondoq ir-Rummien and the development of warehouses on ODZ land in Kirkop.

The authority said in a statement on Friday that, in 2016, it had issued enforcement notices on the sites of the former Mistra Village Holiday Complex in Xemxija and the former Jerma Palace Hotel in Marsascala.

It had noted that these two large sites, in prominent locations, had been left abandoned and in disarray for years resulting. Through the enforcement notices, it had requested the land owners to address the injury to amenity that was resulting from the abandoned state of the structures on site.

In 2016, the Planning Board had unanimously voted against granting an outline development permit for the construction of a destination port comprising of a hotel, a yacht marina and a tourist village at Ħondoq ir-Rummien.

It had cited that the project goes counter to the SPED's vision for Gozo, that of being an ecological Island. The Planning Board had also refused planning permission for the construction of over 30 warehouses in the rural area of Kirkop.