The Planning Authority is today due to consider an application for the building of three additional floors on parts of the Westin Dragonara Hotel – fifty years after the hotel opened for the first time.

The application before the PA Board calls for the development of three additional floors over the existing three floors of bay suites, penthouse apartments and standard rooms overlying a block that is separate from the main hotel building and faces the sea.

The hotel also wants to develop a garden over one of its tennis courts and build a tennis court on the camel pit. A spa will be developed at lobby level.

The original Dragonara Palace Hotel was opened in 1967, with part of the building’s design made by Dom Mintoff. It was run by the Kursaal Co Ltd and Sheraton at the time.

The hotel closed in the 1980s. It was eventually demolished and rebuilt and is currently run by Westin.

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